Sunday, May 03, 2009

CDSU raps Govt over water scarcity

Lamka, May 2: Following a news report of The Sangai Express, Churachandpur District Students’ Union today smacked the State Government over its failure to provide adequate water supply to the second biggest township in the State and informed the Government to resolve the crisis within the next few weeks.

“˜The extent of Government failure and mismanagement never ceases to amaze, but the failure to deliver adequate water supply to the second largest township in the State of Manipur over years has now, to say the least, vexed us,” said the union’s statement today.

“We have suffered water crisis in every dry season over the last eight to ten years, but the magnitude of the crisis has now reached an alarming degree. The ever receding water sources and the emergent township are the major factors, it is eminent.

Yet, it is no worth an excuse for delaying a 24 crore worth of project under NLCPR for seven years,” it added.

Earlier the people here can depend on the rivulets that dotted the town and the ring-wells that are visible in every alternate residence, but they have now dried-up. The Government has to disband the erroneous idea of swindling the people at their own cost.

“Ours is no township to endure such a magnitude of crisis had it not been for the Government’s failure to streamline the vast naturally available water resources in its periphery and the mammoth financial assistance it has received from the centre, it further maintained.

The vast expanses of water reserve at Khuga Dam and Koite lui stands tall and are as revealing. Why pipelines in Tuibuong and Bungmual are running dry if the projects in these two zones are completed and how can any competent department failed to draw water from barely 5 kms in seven years, are they just a face-wash to siphon-off funds, the student body questioned.

Maintaining that no excuse will now be enough an excuse now, as the concern Department has anything essential water, money, materials and that it could not plant the blame on companies that are under their whims the Union said it would be constrained to take its own course if the Government does not deliver the much needed water within few weeks from now.

Source: THE SANGAI EXPRESS

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