Development shied away from Jiri during 2012
Source: The Sangai Express

Jiribam, January 05 2013 : Although no big issue disturbed normal life, petty crimes were witnessed during the year 2012 in Jiribam.

In development front, even as the construction of a guest house and different Government office buildings were completed during the year, people of Jiribam could not get the benefits which were supposed to give by these new buildings.

People's wish to shop at the newly completed super market at the heart of the Sub-Division remained unrealised as the Government could not inaugurate it during 2012 .

In healthcare sector, Jiri people were left in the lurch with inadequate infrastructure and inexperienced doctors plagued the Community Health Centre (CHC), which has now become a referral hospital.

Earlier, the CHC was a Rural Hospital having a number of specialist doctors and adequate infrastructure.

The hospital even used to give treatment to patients from neighbouring Assam and Mizoram.

However, with the hospital had been upgraded to the status of CHC, retirement of specialist doctors and coming of inexperienced doctors, the people of Jiribam are reluctant to admit themselves in the hospital for treatment.

The Health Minister personally visited the CHC and put many staff in suspension for dereliction from duty, however, no replacement was sent during the year.

The condition of the hospital was so deteriorated by the end of the year that the hospital remained shut at times with no visible attention from the Government.

The deteriorated condition of the NH-37 (Imphal-Jiribam) touched the alarming level.

Reaching Imphal from Jiribam sometimes took three to four days.

Stranded goods laden and passenger vehicles could be often witnessed on the sides of the highway due to frequent bandhs and blockades during the past year.

Such conditions gave traffic congestion and other inconveniences to the general public of Jiribam.

With the sudden rise of number of vehicles in the Sub-Division, 20 different cases related to road accident were registered at Jiribam Police Station during the year.

With exception to black topping of the stretch between Babupara to Dibong, no road construction or maintenance work could be witnessed during 2012 .

In public health engineering front, PHED could not supply water to the public most of the time.

Misappropriation of fund for maintenance works hit the headlines during the year.

An abnormal flood rocked Jiribam in 2012 taking human lives and destroying properties.

State Assembly and Panchayat elections were conducted peacefully amidst wide security arrangement.

In all, 40 insurgency related cases were registered at Jiribam PS with the arrest of many underground cadres including retired and suspected persons.

In a positive development, no rape and molestation case was registered during 2012 .

With the closure of the Jiri Jail since past many years, police faced lots of inconvenience in transporting accused persons to Imphal.

The campaign of implementation of Inner Line Permit System was well responded by the people of Jiribam.

Police also checked illegal entry of foreigners to the State at Jiribam.

On the otherhand, Bengali speaking populace of Jiribam demanded that ILPS must not be enforced on them.

There were some standoffs among the people of Jiribam and Jirighat of Assam in the aftermath of some unwanted incidents.

However, the matters were resolved with the intervention from Additional SP and OC of Jiribam Police Station.

Jiribam Police Station provided security to BRTF personnel and railway line construction officials and workers.

The bandh called against the molestation of a film actress and firing at two other actors during a musical concert at Chandel was supported by meira paibees and student organisations of Jiribam.

And it became the most intense bandh of the year.

There was no agitation of Jiribam district demand during the year.

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