Demand for irrigation in different
parts of the state is increasing and in many places it is turning into
agitation. Report of road blockade demanding irrigation facilities has
already arrived from two places and in many other areas people have
demonstrated in front of offices of the irrigation department.
Reports
of road blocked demanding irrigation came from two places under
Kadamtala and Damcherra block in North Tripura district. In Brajendra
Nagar area under Kadamtala block people first locked the office of
Panchyat and then blocked the road. The agitation was withdrawn after
intervention of the block officials and assurance was given about some
remedy.
Narendra
Nagar, Piplacherra, Hezacherra villages under Damcherra Block are
mostly depended on agriculture but due to lack of irrigation people are
suffering. Few hundred of people of the villages recently resorted to
demonstration and blocked the road for four hours.
An
engineer of irrigation department Pijush Malakar was assaulted by the
villagers when he went there and police had intervened to rescue him.
People were aggrieved as the irrigation project constructed on River
Longai in year 2000 is not functioning.
It
is learnt that most of the irrigation projects constructed in the area
during last twenty years are not working and people are demanding their
immediate repair. Many of these projects including one on River Longai
had never worked.
Situation is so grave that most of the senior officials of the department are not visiting the areas fearing public agitation.
