Sufferings of the villagers caused due to Assam Mala, writes Sanjib Deb Laskar

//Sanjib Deb Laskar//

Referring to the observation of Nirmalendu Kar Purkayastha, (Excavation, Restoration and Zero Supervision), 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!

(Sanjib Deb Laskar is renowned eucationist)