ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION

Nagalim has rich natural resources. She is richly blessed with huge deposit of minerals, such as gold, petroleum, uranium, chromite, coal, limestone, jade and varieties of precious stone. Eighty per cent of the land is wooded and valuable trees, such as teak, pine, oak, walnut, satinwood, agar, etc., are found here. But the past decades of ruthless exploitation of these mineral resources and indiscriminate logging by the colonial agents have completely tilted the ecological balance of our once beautiful richly-gifted land. While greedily draining off these resources, not a single industry has been set up within Nagalim. With non-availability of factories and technical institutes, employment opportunity is as good as nil. As a result of these abuses, the bulk of the Naga population is conditioned to live below the poverty line.