Clean Nagaland is a civic reporting platform operated by Nagaland Me. This page explains who we are, why the platform exists, who runs it, and what we stand for.
Why this platform exists
For decades, residents of Nagaland have watched illegal liquor and drug activity harm their families, their neighborhoods, and their children. Many have wanted to speak up. Few have had a safe way to do so. Traditional reporting channels require names, signatures, and visits to offices. Social media posts invite retaliation. Word-of-mouth goes nowhere.
Clean Nagaland exists to close that gap. A resident with a phone can file a report in under two minutes, anonymously, from anywhere in Nagaland, and see what happens next through a tracking code.
The platform does not replace law enforcement, counseling, or community intervention. It sits alongside them as a civic layer that lets information flow safely from the people who see problems to the people who can address them.
Who runs Clean Nagaland
Clean Nagaland is built and operated by Nagaland Me, an independent digital media and technology company based in Dimapur. The operational lead is Aloto Naga, the founder of Nagaland Me.
A small team handles daily moderation, partner coordination, and platform maintenance. We deliberately keep the team small. Larger teams are harder to train, slower to decide, and more prone to leaks. Credibility in civic technology comes from consistent, careful work by few hands, not from scale.
About Aloto Naga
Aloto Naga is a Naga journalist, digital media entrepreneur, and YouTube content creator with over 500,000 subscribers on his Aloto Naga TV channel. He founded Nagaland Me to build digital infrastructure specifically for Nagaland and Northeast India.
Clean Nagaland is one of his responses to a question he has heard for years from community members and viewers: “Where can I report what I see without putting my family at risk?”
Based in Dimapur, Nagaland.
About Nagaland Me
Nagaland Me operates seven digital platforms serving Nagaland and Northeast India:
- Nagaland Me, the parent brand.
- Aagaland AI, a state-level AI chatbot built for Nagaland.
- Nagaland Dictionary, an 18-language Naga tribal language dictionary.
- Nagalad Profiles, a professional directory.
- Nagaland News Today, an independent news publication.
- Help Nagaland, Clean Nagaland, the civic reporting platform.
A seventh platform, Nagaland Me Experts at Experts Marketplace, is in active development as a creator-service marketplace.
Nagaland Me is GST-registered in Dimapur (13DIHPA5679B1ZK) and operates independently of political parties, government agencies, and outside funders.
What we believe
Anonymity is a civic right, not a loophole
Residents who speak up about illegal activity are often the most vulnerable to retaliation. A platform that requires identification is a platform that only the brave can use. We do not think bravery should be a prerequisite for participating in your community. Anonymity is not a way to shield liars. It is a way to let honest people speak safely.
Transparency matters more than scale
We would rather handle fewer reports well than many reports badly. We publish aggregate outcomes every month so residents can judge whether the platform is actually working. If the numbers are embarrassing, we still publish them. Honesty is the only currency civic technology has.
Different harms require different responses
Illegal liquor and drug activity share some surface features but are fundamentally different problems. Alcohol operations often benefit from public light. Drug cases often require privacy to protect affected families. We designed two separate pipelines with different defaults because treating them the same would harm real people.
Partners do what we cannot
We are a media and technology company. We do not run recovery programs, legal aid clinics, or counseling services. When a resident reports drug activity, the right response is almost never “publish it.” The right response is to hand it to organizations that can actually help. Our job is to make that hand-off safe, private, and accountable.
The platform must be able to pause itself
A civic reporting system that cannot be paused in the face of abuse is a liability, not an asset. Clean Nagaland has an emergency killswitch that pauses all new submissions immediately if something is going badly wrong. The public map and status check still work. We would rather pause the platform than watch it do harm.
What we are not
- Not a government project. We are not funded by, directed by, or affiliated with any government department.
- Not law enforcement. We do not file police complaints on behalf of users. We do not have arrest powers. We do not run sting operations.
- Not a political platform. We are non-partisan. Reports about any community are treated the same.
- Not a vigilante group. We do not publish accusations against named individuals. Locations and patterns only.
- Not a news outlet. News coverage of Nagaland is at our sister site nagalandnewstoday.com. Clean Nagaland is about action, not stories.
- Not a crisis line. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 112.
- Not a mobile app. Clean Nagaland is a web platform accessible from any browser on any device.
How We Are Funded
Clean Nagaland is funded through Nagaland Me’s internal revenue streams, including its media and digital initiatives such as the Aloto Naga TV YouTube channel.
We do not accept funding or financial support from:
- Political parties
- Government departments
- Liquor associations or manufacturers
- Drug-related entities of any kind
- Law enforcement agencies
- Foreign governments
At present, we do not rely on public contributions. Any future changes to our funding model will be communicated transparently, along with clear details on usage and accountability.
How we stay accountable
- Every moderator decision is logged to an internal audit trail with a timestamp, a user ID, and a reason.
- Every phone vault unlock and reveal is logged.
- Every drug report forward to a partner is logged.
- Every killswitch activation is logged with the reason.
- Aggregate outcomes are published monthly so the public numbers match the internal numbers.
- Aloto Naga spot-checks moderator decisions regularly.
- Partners are audited periodically to confirm cases are being handled as reported.
If you have a complaint about how a specific report was handled, use the Contact page.
Platform history
Clean Nagaland launched in April 2026 as helpnagaland.com. The platform was built over several months by the Nagaland Me technical team. The visual identity, the moderation workflow, and the partner onboarding process were designed from the start to match the specific realities of Nagaland, not to copy civic tech patterns from elsewhere.
As the platform grows, we will publish version notes and major change announcements here and on the monthly transparency page.
Thank you
Civic technology only works when residents choose to trust it. Thank you for visiting, for reading far enough to learn who we are, and for considering whether this platform can be useful to you and your community. We take that trust seriously.
If you have questions, feedback, or want to help, use the Contact page or the Volunteer page.