Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 08 2009:
Demanding provision of safe drinking water in Lamlai and Chalou area, local people shut Lamlai Bazar and staged a protest sitting today.
The protest sitting staged under the joint aegis of Lamlai Students' Ideal Club, Lamlai Development Committee and Lamlai Meira Paibi was against the failure of the Government to provide safe drinking water in Lamlai and Chalou area for the last 10 years.
Earlier, Lamlai and Chalou were supplied potable water from the Pungdongbam Water Supply Plant.
But it has been long time back when the main pipes were dug up to be replaced with new and larger pipes.
But there has been no replacement as yet.
The protest demonstration urged for laying new pipes at the earliest and completion of the newly constructed water reservoir of Pungdongbam Water Supply Plant.