Source: The Sangai Express / S Singlianmang Guite
Lamka, June 14 2009:
The SDO of Singngat accompanied by various civil societies including ZEPADA and CDSU on Saturday dispensed relief money to Behiang village as a part of the final leg for the current fiscal.
Relief rice and its cash component were sanctioned to all the interior sub-divisions of the district after these were hit by a spate of mautaam famine since past three years.
Though some sub-divisions have completed the process of dispensing relief materials, some completely were said to be lagging behind, with even the rice component yet to reach the masses.
The exercise which hindered in the service of the civil societies and student bodies at Singngat sub-division was due to the stand-off on chiefship.
Two individuals for decades claim and fight in Courts for the chiefship, with both the parties enjoying their share of triumph time and again.
The stand-off often hindered developmental activities in the village costing the village a huge lost, and in the process it was the innocent villagers that suffer the most.
This time too, both the parties claimed they were the genuine one and claimed the relief funds with one group producing DCs order and the other that of a High Court.
In a fix over the situation, the SDO has roped in the civil societies and handed over the relief components to each and every individual in the three villages.
There were mixed reactions over the dispensation as there are some households that were not included in the list official list of households.
An elderly woman even hurled her anger at the SDO and staff.