Source: The Sangai Express / S Singlianmang Guite
Lamka, May 08:
The impasse behind repairing Guite Road, the sole functional highway that connects the state with its neighbouring state of Mizoram still lingers as definite verdict on who would take up the construction work failed to materialize even after one and a half year of NEC sanctioning Rs.107 crores for the same.
The State Government had signed an MoU on atleast three occasions with various student organisations of the district including the CDSU, HAS, KSO, MZP and ZSF that the construction should be handed over to Border Roads Organisation.
Accordingly, Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh, Chief Secretary Jarnail Singh and Mani Charenamei (MP) have formally written to the Secretary and Director of BRO to assume responsibility, and a cabinet decision in this regard was also adopted on September 2, 2006.
As was requested by the Chief Secretary on 22 November, 2006 and the CM on December 1 the same year, BRO has assessed probability of stationing three more functional platoons in the district in addition to the four already stationed to construct NH-150.Survey on the said road was conducted by BRO officials sometime last year with lofty expectations from the people.
CDSU representatives had even accompanied the officials and all along to illustrate their long cherished insistent.
Despite the developments, the Churachandpur-Singngat-Sinzawl stretch of Guite Road has no BRO personnel in sight, nor is there any clue when they would arrive to accomplish desire of the people.
Moreover, it appears that an invisible force hostile to the development is taunting with the people's sentiment.
Unless a definite step is initiated to deal the predicament, crores of rupees may again be mislaid in the process and the people denied of what is already bestowed on them, for another decade.