Lowang calls for checking migration from border areas

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT

ITAGAR, July 3: Legislative Assembly Speaker Wanki Lowang has asked the people to stop migration from border areas and asserted that all their problems will be resolved by providing necessary facilities by the state government.

Releasing the Vision Document for Scheduled Tribes of NE prepared by Akhil Bharatiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (ABVKA) in presence of Chief Secretary Shakuntala Doley Gamlin here on Saturday, Lowang termed migration as the root cause for the people to forget their culture and tradition.

Lowang said he was associated with AVP since its founding days and saluted its founding fathers like Talom Rukbo, Jatan Pulu, and P B Acharya for the visiory initiative.

Referring to the proverb that a journey of a thousand steps starts with a single step, he said that the present initiative of developing the vision document would definitely bring out the expected results in the coming years.

Supporting the prime suggestions of the Vision Document, Lowang said that the state government should have done it very long ago. He appealed the Centre through the ABVKA to develop Aruchal as a model state in the North East region and to take measures to strengthen invaluable tribal values, culture and traditions for the posterity.

He also suggested for a uniform education system all over the country to create better understanding and inculcate a sense of tiolism among all the people tionwide. He said that the document focus on the various issues faced by the tribal communities, especially the Aruchalees and the other communities of the North East and hoped that its suggestions would definitely looked into with topmost priority.  In her address, Gamlin said that Aruchal has come far away from its NEFA days while adding that the document is in the larger interest of the state.

“Our society needs to have a debate why the constitutiol provisions for tribal are not materialized. Sustaible development must be ensured by exploring and exploiting the resources in our areas. We must not miss this opportunity to turn our society into a well sustained society,” she stressed.

She said in her tenure as the CS, she would strive to see that development reach the grass root level even by shedding the last drop of her blood in the areas of infrastructure development such as rail, road and airports, development of transport corridors and to make Aruchal Pradesh as an organic state so that the agricultural and horticultural products reach the intertiol markets benefitting the farmers and skilling Aruchal intellectually at par with the tiol standards.

Stating that dam technology has gone farther ahead, Gamlin said, “We need not be apprehensive of the dam bursts but should tap its benefits.”

The chief secretary lauded the Aruchal Visas Paris had (AVP) and its parental body ABVKA for the noble venture of developing the document and hoped that it would definitely serve as a reference guide in formulating the government’s policies and programs.