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Excavation, Restoration and Zero Supervision, writes Nirmalendu Kar Purakayastha
//Nirmalendu Kar Purakayastha//
Our nation is moving towards “Developed India”. We the people of Silchar are also witnessing transformation of our Silchar into a developed entity. Last one /two years all the roads, streets and lanes have been excavated time to time for laying water and gas pipe lines being part of developmental work. As a result most of the roads, streets and lanes are badly damaged. No one knows when digging starts and when it ends. All of a sudden one can find digging started without any prior information and ignoring public inconvenience caused by narrowing of roads, water stagnation etc. causing life endangering journeys for the common people. When work is done executing officials hardly bother about quality of restoration work. As a result there are lots of suffering due to traffic congestion and road accidents. Ultimately civic life is badly affected. If administrators are not aware of this situation then we are definitely living in a lawlessness situations . Administration and executing officials must be aware and responsible for this situation . We always can’t blame our government for this. We don’t expect Honourable PM /CM to take stock of these issues. We live in a town/city where emotion is talking points. Now a days People are on the Streets to express their anger, frustration there exists emotion driven situations If the administrators ignore people’s feelings definitely they are free to choose their modalities but they are not free from consequences of their choices. Time has come for the administrators, people’s representatives and community leaders to be on the roads, streets and lanes to observe, coordinate and monitor entire process otherwise no one will be able to produce stunning results for the Development of Silchar and very purpose of development will be in disarray.
(Nirmalendu Kar Purakayastha is renowned Cost Accountant)
Referring to the observation of Nirmalendu Kar Purkayastha I feel like adding the sufferings of the villagers caused due to execution Assam Mala through the paddy fields, existing roads or residential areas in the countryside. The contractors with the public representatives at their back are now out with the excavators, buldozers destroying the paddy field, filling earth to heighten and broaden the road in a disproportionate way resulting in frequent water logging in the residential areas in both sides of the road, inundating houses just after a smart rain of an hour leaving people struggle for survival by themselves. In most of the villages in Cachar district under the project. Vast areas virtually converted into seasonal basins due to water blockades. The culverts constructed in places are, however simply inadequate to let surplus water pass into the other side. This is a serious threat of displacement of the people in the name of development. One may ask– for whom these elevated roads (highways)? Who would anyway reap the benefit of this development? Not surely the poor villagers, agriculturists, grihasthas living in their own heath depending on the produces in their meagre garden and on the livestocks they keep for their sustenance in the rear!
We are publishing your valuable reaction, Sir.