Sugnu denizens suffer like hell from deficiencies
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, April 29 2012: Sugnu which is under Thoubal district has been suffering from insufficient supply of potable water and electricity for quite long even as the Community Health Centre (CHC) has remained defunct due to absence of doctors on duty.

Addressing media persons at Manipur Press club today, G Ibomcha, Chairperson of Sugnu Municipal Council pointed out that the required numbers of doctors in the CHC is 10 .

But of late the CHC is being run by one doctor only.

Some of the doctors posted in the CHC have never turned up after they left for study leave.

Few years back, two/three doctors used to be present in the CHC on regular basis.

But now hardly any doctors come to attend their duties and as a result the people of the area have been suffering like hell.

Ibomcha went on to point out that it may not be a problem for the rich people but for those who are poor and could not afford to go down to Imphal for treatment, absence of doctors in the lone CHC has been creating lot of difficulties.

So if the required doctors are not provided to the CHC at the earliest, denizens of Sugnu may be compelled to take recourse to various intense agitations, he warned.

Ibomcha further informed that the Sugnu Water Supply scheme, which was set up in 1975, used to supply drinking water to the villagers for a couple of years.

After that it has remained stopped from supplying water to the villagers.

Later in the year 2004, the water supply scheme was upgraded and supply of water to the villagers resumed for some time.

But it has been almost seven years that the water supply has completely stopped providing water.

As such the villagers have to depend on water from river, ponds and hand pump for drinking purposes.

With onset of monsoons every year, the villagers suffer from various diseases due to drinking unsafe water.

So the concerned department should see that the people of this area get proper drinking water at the earliest, Ibomcha pleaded.

The villagers also suffer equally from erratic electricity supply with load shedding after every 15 days and one other day, the department fails to ensure sufficient electricity supply.

The villagers hardly get seven days of electricity in a month, he added.

Ibomcha also mentioned about the problems faced by pensioners of the area while withdrawing their pension amount.

Since there is no bank in Sugnu, the pensioners have to go all the way to Thoubal to withdraw their pensions.

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