KOHIMA: The Kohima Deputy Commissioner’s order directing officials not to issue Scheduled Tribe/Backward Tribe/Indigenous Inhabitant Tribe certificates to children of non-Naga fathers as well as non-Naga children adopted by Naga parents, has triggered discussion on how to implement it effectively. To make the exercise effective, Consultant and Entrepreneur, Yanpvuo Kikon stressed on the need to leverage technology to curb possible manipulation. Speaking to Eastern Mirror, Kikon said the government’s move is good but it should be backed by best available technology to strengthen the system. ‘In this age of digital technology, we cannot continue to rely on handwritten and paper records which can be forged, backdated, foredated and manipulated at anytime without having any record on who and when the record was edited,’ he maintained. He added that the manual paper system can be manipulated easily compared to robust encrypted digital database. To address the issue, he said there is