From Alex Guite
LAMKA, December 6: On December 4, there were cheers in some part of the state regarding a programme held under the aegis of the Department of Agriculture, Manipur and the Department of Power.
Top Manipuri officials of the said depts. Came out in full strength to the tiny Tallian village in the small hamlet of Thanlon sub-division.
The village with a habitant of just 40 household and the neighboring village had their cup full as the Rabi seed distribution programme fulfilled their desire to have the generically superior seed for their fields.
The denizen of the village confided to the Imphal Free Press correspondent that they were mighty please with the effort of their representative in the Manipur Legislative Assembly, VungzaginValte, who also hold the Hort, SC and CADE portfolio as a Parliament Secretary.
They said that without the afford of Valte, the Minister Md Abdul Nasir who personally supervise the distribution program might not attend and added that his presence is one of the potent cause of their joy as their problem is heard and seen by the Minister.
The Minister speaking on the occasion expresses the hope that the seeds will bridge the problem of the sub division’s habitant in terms of seed procurement.
Some of the item distributed today included 100-bags of potatoes, 10 bags of mustard seeds, 10 bags of peas, 10 bags of chana and others.
The beneficiaries include 37 households from Tallian village, 22 from Leijangphai, 19 from Bungjang, 4 from Tuikualmuallum, 7 from Sainojang, 10 from Tulpiphai, 1 from Zotang, 5 from Pamjal, 2 from Mongjang and Khekon. . Not to be outdone, the commissioner (power) Manipur, also announce that the people of Thanlon area will very soon ‘see the light’.
It is interesting that the people of Thanlon had atleast once been the constituency of the who’s who of Paite politicians of high calibre, but literally, no single house of the district had ever experience the modern marvel called ,electricity, other then generated electric in the 80’s in their home.
This is one reason that prompted the constituency representative Valte to suggest that the sub division be declare a ‘dark constituency’ as in line with the prefix ’the dark continent’ attach to the continent of Africa, in the last sitting of the Manipur Assembly.
After the seed distribution program the Minister and party made an unscheduled visit to Thanlon where massive electricity power plan had been constructed for the benefit of the sub division.
The Commissioner (power) assured the cheering villagers that the Power Dept will put in place a mechanism that will result in the bringing light in the Thanlon sub-division by March 2013 and assured the villager that this pet project of their MLA is in full swing. The Engineer at Thanlon said that the two transformers which arrived in Thanlon a few days back are 1000 KVA each which will be enough to supply power to about 2000 household and another bigger transformer is on the pipeline the source added. At present the sub division headquarter Thanlon had about 200 household.