MLA K Raina vents his indignation
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: August 02 2011 -

MLA, K Raina representing Tadubi Assembly Constituency has gone after the State PWD hammer and tongs and the kitchen sink. His outrage is based on the assumption that the PWD has done precious little to improve or recondition NH 39 and that it is a braggart when it says it is doing its utmost to make NH 39 road worthy throughout the year.

In his own words MLA, K Raina said the PWD is merely ‘showing off’. The PWD has responded with alacrity, but its answers and defences are like the weak and watery sun on a bleak winter morning, promising but bringing no deliverance.

In its retort to MLA, K Raina's simple but yet thundering charges the answer of PWD’s K Premkumar, EE (NH Division) looks like being inaudible, incoherent and irrelevant.

What is the ground reality of NH 39 ? Let us speak of the portion which falls through in MLA, K Raina's constituency. The highway runs through approximately 50% of his constituency.

The condition of the road, at certain points is so subsided and full of mud, that it will be a perfect wallowing ground for buffaloes.

And let us remember what our elders said, NH 39, though narrow, was always kept in an impeccable condition by the British. Through inefficiency and a lack of moral responsibility we have successfully turned this highway, one of the oldest in India, into a mockery of a road.

It has increasingly become a matter of concern that we possibly do not have the technical knowhow to maintain this highway. Should this be the reality then we should stop being imposters and wash our hands off NHs 39 and 53. It could well turn out that the concerned but unconcerning PWD staff receives a public belting.

MLA, K Raina has said that the local people have been continuously extending full support to the PWD in its efforts to develop 39. And that when the department again asked for public co-operation, he was perplexed and wondered what more co-operation was required.

To stick to MLA, K Raina's stance, it seems quite probable that the PWD is adopting a fraudulent position in explaining its position vis a vis NH 39's development. For one thing very few people believe in the PWD’s unctuous statements.

In this regard the declamations of the PWD by MLA, K Raina can and should be considered as an eye opener to reality. Much more important than that is the fact that NH 39 is in a pitiable condition in spite of whatever banal statements the authorities of the PWD might make. Towards this end the MLA's efforts must be lauded.

However, an appeal should also be made to the MLA that banned outfits have been on an unceasing extortion spree on the national highways for a long time. Denying this will equate to believing in the lies of the PWD.

So let us all be a bit more careful when we try to understand what are the forces undermining development in the state. This is meant both for the hills and the valley.

Let us ask ourselves who really are the people jeopardizing the progress of the state. Is it only corrupt officials and Ministers, or are there other factors?

Let us not only be honest to ourselves but let us also accept the ugly truth of greedy extortion in the hills. Let us then learn to live with reality, which means we have to live with each other, trust each other and accept each other for what we are, not for what we were supposed to have been generations ago.

Otherwise we will fall victims to sectarian violence, and if you are a believer in God, evil forces will visit on mankind.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
–Book of Revelation