Dimapur, March 19 (EMN): Mon battalion of the Assam Rifles has donated a water supply scheme by way of providing a bore well to the villagers of S/Chingnyu, one of the remote villages in Mon district along the Indo-Myanmar border on March 17.
The borewell project was inaugurated and handed over to the villagers by the chief angh Aloh Konyak of Shengha Chingnyu in the presence of Col Dipankar Basu, Commandant of 35 AR and other eminent personalities of the village.
In the past, the villagers have to ferry water in the mountainous terrain over long distances. The bore-well project has provided potable water to an approximate 3000 resident of Shengha Chingnyu and nearby villages.