Alo Libang, lawmakers Reach out to villagers of interior areas in Payum

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ITANAGAR: Minister for Health and Family Welfare Alo Libang along with lawmakers Talem Taboh, Kanggong Taku and the officials from the district administration made a four-day continuous foot march from Molo Village to Miging covering unconnected and unreached areas of Payum Circle.

The main objective of this foot-march was to get a first-hand experience of the problems faced by the people of these interior villages and also to re-establish the age-old traditional porter track through the famous Luyor Mountain range that connects the Payum Circle which falls under the constituency of the 32nd Rumgong AC and Miging Circle which falls under the 34thTuting-Yingkiong Assembly Constituency.

While narrating the woes of villagers in these interior areas, former ZPM (Zila Panchayat Member) of Payum village, Tamang Tachung said that the Payum hamlet used to be comprised of around 50 houses but it was completely gutted in a devastating fire accident in 2018. Mentionably, Tamang Tachung has now migrated from Payum to Kaying owing to lack of basic amenities like road communication, electricity, telecommunication in the erstwhile Payum village.

Since the tragic inferno incident of 2018, the people of Payum village started migrating to other places like Kaying as rebuilding work is even more difficult owing to lack of road connectivity. Now the village has hardly 25 houses and that too with all aged people, he pointed out.

Much concerned of the problems faced by the villagers, Minister Libang expressed confidence that the new MLA of the area — Talem Taboh — will work for road connectivity of the area.

“Being one of the Ministers in the Pema Khandu Government in the State, it’s my sole responsibility to see that there is equal development in all the areas of the State, said Libang while assuring the people of the area to extend his help to the people of these unreached area.

He added that the Government is also extending its all possible efforts to reach out to the last village of the State through its development programmes.

Local legislator Talem Taboh also assured the villagers of his sincere effort to bring road communication to the area. He said that the people’s mandate is the mandate for the development of the area.

It may be mentioned here that Payum Circle is one of the oldest Circles, established way back in 1963 and strategically located under Siang district. But still it is bereft of any visible development for the last many years due to lack of road connectivity in the area.

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