State BJP lobbies for development projects
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, June 24 2014: A team of the State BJP unit called on a number of Union Ministers of the NDA Government and urged them to take up a dozen development projects in Manipur.

Speaking to media persons at their Nityaipat Chuthek office today, BJP State unit president Th Chaoba said he went to Delhi with the party general secretaries M Ashnikumar, L Basanta and ex-MLA S Keba and called on Union Ministers one after another.

DoNER Minister VK Singh's scheduled visit to the State on June 28 has been cancelled as it coincides with a foreign tour.

Nonetheless, VK Singh would visit Manipur after the Parliament session, he added.

During a meeting with Union Minister of Agriculture Radha Mohan, Chaoba and his team urged the Union Minister to open a new Central Agricultural College in rural areas of Manipur, improve irrigation system in both the hills and valley of Manipur and augment the existing KVK centres.

They also appealed to extend special occupation rehabilitation packages for fishing communities of Loktak Lake with special preference to 1010 floating hut dwellers of the lake who were evicted by the State Government in 2011 .

Chaoba claimed that they received positive response from the Union Minister.

The team then called on Union Minister for Health Dr Harshbhardhan and appealed for improving the lot of the State's PHSCs, PHCs, CHCs, district hospitals, JNIMS and RIMS.

The team's next host was Union Minister for Surface and Road Transport, Shipping, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Nitin Gadkari.

During the meeting, the State BJP leaders made a strong point to relieve BRO of the highway construction works in Manipur and bring the Imphal-Jiribam highway, Imphal-Dimapur highway and Imphal-Aizawl highway under the National Highways Authority of India.

Nitin Gadkari, in his response, stated that he would visit Manipur to oversee existing conditions of the highway and take up necessary actions, Chaoba conveyed.

In their next stop, the team called on Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and MOS Home Affairs Kiran Rijiju.

They apprised the two Ministers about the security situation in Manipur, drug trafficking problems and the Indo-Myanmar border row in Moreh sector.

They also held separate meetings with DoNER Ministry VK Singh, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs M Venkaiah Naidu and Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thawaarchand Gehlot.

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