DIBRUGARH, Aug 17: Last flood proves to be the straw that ultimately broke the camel’s back. With the students coming out in large number and demonstrating in front of their respective institutions closing down the arterial Keshab Chandra Gogoi Path for about two hours demanding immediate completion of drains, footpath and roads.
The K Road, it may be mentioned was in dilapidated condition since the last two decades. Various Governments have come and gone, control of the municipality has changed hands, and the high officials of the PWD were transferred and then re-transferred but the condition of the road had gone from bad to worse. In the past years, the students have approached the authority time and again and they were given false promises. The portion of the road from Gavarupathar intersection to the St. Mary’s School beggars description. One single smart shower turns this portion of the road into a ditch of water creating danger to the life and limb of the small school children as well as to the college students. The situation is compounded by the haphazard and unplanned digging up of the roadside in the name of creating a storm water drain-cum-footpath. This exercise is also kept incomplete and the situation has deteriorated to an extent that a teacher of a nearby school falling into a ditch and suffering injuries.
On the other hand, the Indian Railways during their much-touted broad conversion programme has heightened the earthwork opposite the local colleges resulting in water logging in front of the gates of the colleges.
The agitating students lodged their protest by burning car tyres in front of Little Flower School, DHSK Commerce College and DHSK College. The police force headed by Superintendent of Police, Abhijit Bora and Additional Deputy Commissioner, Tosheswar Muktiar rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control. The ADC Muktiar assured the students’ community that the district administration would take necessary steps in fulfilling their demand. He invited all the office-bearers of the college unions at the DC’s office on August 18, for sorting out the ways and means to solve the problems for ever. On being assured by the authority for a permanent solution of the problems, the students lifted their road blockade stir. THE SENTINEL
The K Road, it may be mentioned was in dilapidated condition since the last two decades. Various Governments have come and gone, control of the municipality has changed hands, and the high officials of the PWD were transferred and then re-transferred but the condition of the road had gone from bad to worse. In the past years, the students have approached the authority time and again and they were given false promises. The portion of the road from Gavarupathar intersection to the St. Mary’s School beggars description. One single smart shower turns this portion of the road into a ditch of water creating danger to the life and limb of the small school children as well as to the college students. The situation is compounded by the haphazard and unplanned digging up of the roadside in the name of creating a storm water drain-cum-footpath. This exercise is also kept incomplete and the situation has deteriorated to an extent that a teacher of a nearby school falling into a ditch and suffering injuries.
On the other hand, the Indian Railways during their much-touted broad conversion programme has heightened the earthwork opposite the local colleges resulting in water logging in front of the gates of the colleges.
The agitating students lodged their protest by burning car tyres in front of Little Flower School, DHSK Commerce College and DHSK College. The police force headed by Superintendent of Police, Abhijit Bora and Additional Deputy Commissioner, Tosheswar Muktiar rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control. The ADC Muktiar assured the students’ community that the district administration would take necessary steps in fulfilling their demand. He invited all the office-bearers of the college unions at the DC’s office on August 18, for sorting out the ways and means to solve the problems for ever. On being assured by the authority for a permanent solution of the problems, the students lifted their road blockade stir. THE SENTINEL
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