Erosion going on unabated at Kordoiguri under Doomdooma LAC

A CORRESPONDENT

DOOMDOOMA: Following incessant rains for more than a week, most of the rivers in Doomdooma and Sadiya LACs in Tinsukia district are in spate.

Consequently, the people are reeling under flood on one hand, on the other hand they are spending sleepless nights because of unabated erosion that is going on. If in Hatighuli and Saikhowa areas the erosion of the Brahmaputra River, which is actually Dibang and Lohit river flowing along with Dangri River through the Ananta Nala, is causing threat to the existing dyke, in Kordoiguri area under Doomdooma LAC, it has been eroding away the villages one after another during the past two decades or so, thus rendering hundreds of families homeless on one hand and shrinking the huge area of cultivable lands on the other.

The anti-flood and anti-erosion measures adopted by the water resource department so far have been proved to be ineffective. Although Water Resources Minister Piyush Hazarika did pay a visit to the area just after assumption of his office, nothing tangible has taken place. Such is the state of affairs that the very existence of the Tippuk Mayamora Simaluguri Bajrapur Xatra has been threatened.

Although the erosion was taking place since 1992-93, year after year the villagers went on appealing to the government to protect this historic Mayamora Xatra but to no avail. Besides the Xatra, erosion was taking place in No.3 Kordoiguri (Gariyating), Dorjinan, Digulturrung and Baghjan. In the past, porcupines, concrete blocks and Geo-bags that were used as anti-erosion measures were reportedly washed away by the river. Even if in some portion of the river the erosion could be stopped by adopting the aforesaid measures, it again started eroding in some other portions of the river bank. So this has led people to wonder as to how scientific these anti-erosion measures really are!

In the meanwhile, the All Moran Students' Union (AMSU) along with several other organizations warned the government to take effective scientific measures to save life and property or they would be compelled to launch agitation programmes.

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