To locate Kakching district headquarters : Body recommends Waikhong Thongjao
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 15 2018:
The All Kakching Khunou Public Welfare and Development Association has categorically stated that the Kakching district headquarters should be located at Waikhong Thongjao.
Speaking to media persons at Manipur Press Club this evening, the association's secretary Mayanglambam Sureshkumar appealed to all concerned not to politicise selection of Kakching district headquarters.
He claimed that Waikhong Thongjao is the place which is equi-distant from the four Assembly segments located within Kakching district namely; Kakching Hiyanglam, Wabagai and Sugnu.
Waikhong Thongjao is located in the middle of Sora and Serou and it is connected to Chandel, Bishnupur and Imphal West districts.
Apart from an SDO office which is already there, there is enough State land at Waikhong Thongjao, Sureshkumar said.
The district administration has already submitted a report to the State: Government pointing out that Waikhong Thongjao is located in the centre of Kakching district.
It is a matter of great concern that some people have been politicising the issue and conspiring to develop Kakching town as district headquarters on the pretext that the district has been named after Kakching, he said.
Kakching has been already urbanised and there are many institutions at Kakching town.
The Government must not overlook the fact that creation of a new district is primarily for the welfare and convenience of people residing within the particular district, Sureshkumar said.
The recent media report that the people of Kakching AC, Hiyanglam AC, Wabagai AC and Sugnu AC have agreed to locate Kakching district headquarters at Kakching town was rather comical.
Signatures given by a handful of individuals cannot represent the people of the four Assembly segments.
In case the Government opts for any place other than Waikhong Thongjao for development of Kakching district headquarters, All Kakching Khunou Public Welfare and Development Association will support any decision and movement taken/launched by the District Headquarters Demand Committee, Waikhong-Thongjao, Sureshkumar added.