Kakching demands infrastructure development
Source: The Sangai Express
Kakching, February 20 2018:
Following Kakching District Headquarters Infrastructure Development Committee (KDHIDC), Sora Makha Development Club today demanded infrastructural development needed for Kakching to become a full fledged revenue district.
The people of kakching have been demanding districthood well before the creation of a separate Thoubal district from Imphal district, said a statement issued by the club today.
Kakching have been demanding districthood for the past 40 years, it said.
Geographical location (mid point) of a place can not be the sole criteria for allocation of district headquarters, it said refuting the proposal of some section of people to move the district headquarters from Kakching.
In the same line, Kakching District Headquarters Infrastructure Development Com- mittee in a statement today said that the people of Kakching, clubs and CSOs will organise a sit-in protest at Naohallai Lampak, Kakching Bazar on February 21 at 10 am demanding adequate infrastructural develop- ments at Kakching for a proper District Headquarters.
It further invited all communities in and around Kakching to join the sit-in protest and demand infrastructures needed to ease business transactions.