Developmental news is very sweet to hear. It acts as soothing balm to the pains. Stomach ceases to turn as such news acts as antacid to the burning stomach. However not every day is good day. We cannot hear good news every day. But if the good news degrades to bad news it acts as double force to incapacitate thinking capability of those who would get direct or indirect benefit from the developmental activities taken up in their particular area. Therefore when you give assurance you must see to it that the assurance is strictly adhered to by the implementing agencies or by the officials concerned. There is a mandop of a local deity at Moreh, which had received assurances from at least three Chief Ministers of the state in the past. The assurance repeatedly made was erection of fencing wall around the mandop. But it never came up. Bureaucrats in Manipur have inculcated the bad habit of turning blind eye to the assurances made by the top executives of the state Government. There are also some MLAs, who make promise of giving monetary help to the organisations, which honour them by offering chief guest of the function. Amazingly these MLAs (not all) forget the same promise they had made before the big gathering of the function and refuse to part away the amount they had assured. So these organisations having been stung by the false promise have decided not to pursue the assured amount if the amount would not be given on the day itself. What a shame they had unnecessarily invited for themselves. The false promises made repeatedly, which never transformed into reality have butchered the trust of the people. So they look cynically when someone makes assurance be it for repairing a road or construction of a building or a bridge. Everybody, who matters, has been making the assurance that the repairing of the 220 km long Imphal-Jiribam road would be completed by December next year, which is too short keeping in view the manner with the repairing is taken up at very slow rate. Even then such assurance which comes down from the highest authority of the construction agency is soothing to hear. Let his assurance gets transformed into reality as per schedule announced by him. In the absence of rail service Manipur desperately needs well maintained national highway to bring essential commodities to the state. Travelling on these twin national highways is horrendous. Such a very short distance from Imphal to Jiribam, but one spends gruelling 14 hours in covering the distance. It means one hour plus 20 minutes in covering a distance of 10 kilometres. If the road is properly maintained the whole stretch can be covered in five hours. The prices of essential commodities are very high in Manipur. It is caused by the spiralling charges of transportation. The transporters too justify their demand for more because it takes five days to deliver a truck load of commodities in Imphal from Silchar. All these factors are catalytic in increasing the prices of essential commodities. One hopes early completion of Imphal Jiribam road.
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