"We have a proper, institutionalised system of tax collection," says Zhimoni. The rates vary ( see chart ) but no one is spared, except administrators. "We collect money from all non-administrative departments like PWD, PHE, veterinary etc, but the DCs and SPs are not touched," he adds. "Tax notices are sent in advance and a proper challan (receipt) is issued after the money is collected," says Mulatonu, secretary of the GPRN's ministry of information and publicity ( see photocopies ). In this underground system, the NSCN is the party and the GPRN the government. At the moment everybody who is a somebody in the NSCN holds twin posts. S.S. Khaplang is the chairman of the NSCN(K)and president of the GPRN. Dolly Mangro is the general secretary of the NSCN and 'prime minister'. A 'Kilonser' in the NSCN is equivalent to a 'cabinet minister' in the GPRN and so on. Each member of the Ho Ho (Parliament) is a 'tatar' (MP). Regional authorities are the main fund collectors. Regional chairmen are the topmost administrators of the regions, which roughly correspond to the present districts of Nagaland. So, the regional chairman of,say, Tuensang district acts like the chief minister of the area. He is assisted by the regional vice-chairman who holds the parallel rank of deputy chief minister while the regional secretary has the power and authority equivalent to that of a chief secretary when he acts as the functionary of GPRN. The 'army' is subordinate to the GPRN and is headed by a commander-in-chief who holds the rank of a general. The main fighting force comprises roughly nine battalions, each consisting about 500 fully-armed and trained cadres. Each of these battalions is commanded by a colonel. They are deployed according to the requirement, one of the battalion commanders said during the journey through the Naga heartland with the Outlook team. But according to a standard pattern, each district is given a battalion. To soothe ruffled feathers, the Centre had initiated the famous Shillong accord in 1975 and signed a truce pact with the followers of the legendary rebel guru A.Z.Phizo. The truce offer was not accepted by the more radical group led by Swu, Khaplang and Muivah. The trio went on to form the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) in 1980. Eight years later, Khaplang broke away from Swu and Muivah to form the NSCN(K). Since then, the two groups have been at loggerheads and factional/tribal clashes, are on the rise. The inner-wranglings notwithstanding, Naga militancy has carried on for the past 40 years. The GPRN, like any democratically-elected government, depends on the people for its survival. And the people haven't divulged a single bit of information to Indian soldiers or the administration—against the militants. Therein lies the success of the underground government in Nagaland.