EMN
Dimapur, November 23
The Konyak Students’ Union (KSU) has expressed support to the Eastern Naga Students’ Federation’s (ENSF) demand to the state government to ‘hand over’ a number of roads to the border Roads organization (BRO). The KSU issued a press release on Monday.
“In pursuance to the resolution adopted during the executive meeting of the Konyak Students Union dated 20th Nov 2015, the union had endorsed its utmost support to the Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) on demand for transfer of 19 major roads to Border Road Organization (BRO) from NPWD,” the organization stated in the press release.
The union also expressed resentment “on the rumors that the existing Mon-Tobu roads and Mon-Longwa roads are to be handed over to the NPWD from BRO which will cause untold hardship in future.”
“Moreover, the inter-state connectivity roads from Mon-Namtola (Assam) and Mon-Naginimora had been left unattended for more than a decades or more and surprisingly even the inter district road connection between Mon-Longleng either via Apao Junction and Zero point Dikhu road had never been attended which causes untold miseries to the people of the region,” the press release explained.
The student’s union has resolved “to include the road from Tang Junction to Aboi Town via Chen town which should be also be considered on equal priority with the rest.” The people aspire for “motor-able and all seasoned road,” the union said. However, the region had been deprived from “such development which had stagnant all forms of development in the region,” it explained.
The union remarked that ‘those major roads’ which had been a lifeline for the districts and its villages had rather become a “life taking roads owing to its deplorable and terrible conditions.”
“It is heart rending to see the road which is meant for all forms of development is in degrading stage, suppressing all kinds of progress. The demand of ENSF is genuine & rational and the KSU will stands firm until justice on roads is being delivered to the people dwelling the remote part of the state,” the union said.
Further, the Konyak students called as “manipulative game played on Mon-Namtola.” The union said to have learnt that during phase-I project, “16 crores were sanctioned for improvement of Mon-Namtola road but no changes had been done instead degraded more and more.”
“A subsequent project Phase-II had been allotted in 2013-2014 financial year amounting 46 crores for same road, out of which 10 crores had been released so far without any work done,” the press release added.
