Villagers come to district inauguration from remote areas

Sixty-eight-year-old Soniyo Tarok walked four days along with 50 of his colleagues from remote Pipsorang circle bordering the Tibet region of China to be a part of the historic occasion of inauguration of Kra Daadi district by Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today.
The head gaon burah along with his associatates negotiated all challenges to reach Palin where the district inauguration function was organised.
"With the inauguration the long-felt demands of the people for hassle-free administration has been fulfilled and we are optimistic that our dream for a all-weather road will be fulfilled soon," Tarok said.
Pipsorang is one of the remotest circle headquarters of the newly created district without any road communication, situated just a few kilometers from the Indo-Sino border.

People in this circle are entirely dependent on air sorties for essential commodities including medical emergencies when they were evacuated to either Palin or Itanagar.
"We are here with a hope that our long pending demand for surface communication will be announced by Chief Minister Nabam Tuki so that our people could easily make movement for their necessities," Tarok said.

"We have to walk for four days through hostile terrain to reach Palin through the shortest route after taking rest at intervals," he said flanked by one of his colleague gaon bura Maru Tania of Tali circle who along with 35 GBs traversed a long distance through two days foot march.

Gokia Obing, GB of Chambang and Godak Rinio, gaon buri of Gangte also undertook tedious journey to reach Palin with hopes of getting all the basic requirements including medical facilities, electricity and water supply in their circle headquarters which so far were mere dreams.
When the Pawan Hans chopper with Chief Minister Nabam Tuki was visible in the distant horizon, Albe Ato Albe Ato (welcome welcome) rent the air as thousands of people who thronged the venue in their best traditional attire sprung up in jubiliation.
For the people of Tali and Pipsorang, an all-weather road is a distant dream.

However, the state government is planning to construct road in phased manner and proposals have been forwarded to the Centre for according sanction, chief minister Nabam Tuki announced while addressing the gathering after formal inauguration of the district at Palin.
"With Centre attaching top priority on infrastructure development, my government is committed to link all places in the state with road connectivity," the chief minister assured.
"Construction of road to Tali will help our people to have access to all requirements including education, health and electricity," said former Lok Sabha MP Takam Sanjoy, a native of Palin.
Tali and Pipsorang depend on air sorties for essential commodities and even sometime the denizens of these places have to feed themselves with locally available products for days together when inclement weather did not permit sorties by the Indian Air Force.

"Our government has already appraised the Centre on several occasions about the communication bottleneck in this part and accordingly implementing project under PMGSY to bridge the gap," commented PHED Minister Takam Pario, who is also the local MLA from Palin.