Rabindranath Biswas
Diglipur, Oct 22: The Pramukh, Panchayat Samiti Diglipur Shri Dipankar Mistry has pressed for early commencement of the Rural Road from Govt. Middle School Shantinagar to Shri Kanai lal Biswas house at Shantinagar, Ward No. 02 under Swarajgram Section.
According to information, the Rural Road from G.M. School Shantinagar to Shri Kanai Lal Biswas house at Shantinagar, Ward No. 02 under Swarajgram Section which was taken up in the year 2023-24 and 2024-25 Annual Plan by the APWD, CD, Diglipur is indispensable for the villagers residing under Gram Panchayat Gandhinagar.
Talking to Andaman Sheekha Daily, the Pramukh said that the Rural Road from G.M.S Shantinagar to Shri Kanai Lal Biswas house at Shantinagar, Ward No. 02 is in fact the last part of the road which initially started from Badur Tikrey & Gandhinagar village through Ganeshnagar and ended at the beginning point of Shantinagar village. There are three villages namely Gandhinagar, Ganeshnagar and Shantinagar under Gandhinagar Panchayat, in which 1200 people live.
People have been living in Shantinagar village since 1969 and licenses of land were issued by the Deputy Commissioner, N & M Andaman, Mayabunder during the year 2002 while Panchayati Raj system was established in this village in 2010, he further added. However, the people residing in this region have been facing severe difficulties owing to the absence of a pucca road in the village.
Mr. Dipankar Mistry who is also the Samiti Member from Gandhinagar constituency further said that the earth work of the Rural Road from G.M.S Shantinagar to Shri Kanai Lal Biswas house at Shantinagar was completed by the Panchayat Samiti, Diglipur during the year 2010 to 2015. However, owing to the paucity of funds and the stretch of the road being 2.5km in length, it was decided in the Gram Sabha Meeting that the work of the road be handed over to the CD, APWD, Diglipur. And accordingly, the relevant documents of the road in question were handed over to the Executive Engineer, CD, APWD, Diglipur at the very beginning of preparation of the estimate of the road, the Pramukh claimed.
The stretch of the road, which is about 2.5 km in length, starts from the very beginning point of Shantinagar village to the last point of the village where the land was allotted to the people under the colonization scheme by the Revenue Department. This is the road which will help connect the people of this outlying area to the Diglipur town area. About 270 to 300 people were settled near this road with land & license by the government and the residents especially school going children, elderly and medical patients have been facing severe inconveniences in using this earth road, the Pramukh said. Besides, it is the responsibility of the administration to deliver essential services like road, electricity, water etc to the people settled by the govt. of India, Mr. Mistry maintained.
The Pramukh has recently written a letter addressed to the Chief Secretary, A & N Administration, Sri Vijaya Puram and apprised him of the plight of the residents of Shantinagar village owing to incompletion of the rural road and urged him to impress upon the concerned officials to expedite the further process of the road and accomplish it within a given timeline thereby rescuing the residents of Shantinagar village, Dipankar Mistry said.
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