FREE ELEPHANT RIDE SERVICE ACROSS SISSAR;FLOOD CONTROL COMMITTEE FORMED

Sine river

DAMBUK, June 12: To the much delight of the people of Dambuk Sub-Division, the boat service at Bomjir-Bizari Ghat and elephant service at Dambuk-Aohali Ghat at Sissar river will be free for the passengers on the initiation of Local MLA, Jomin Tayeng who assured to bear the service charge of both the country boat and elephant from MLA LAD fund. In this regard, an official order was issued by SDO Dambuk directing shri Nanokong Modi  ASM, Remi and Oling Ratan of Bizari village   to engage their boat and elephant free of cost for crossing the passengers across the river. 

Yet another important development for the local populace of Dambuk was the formation of a Flood Control Committee that was formed consequent upon the continuous threat of the catastrophic river, Sine flowing in between Tapat and SDO Headquarter, Dambuk township. The committee was formed in a meeting held under the chairmanship of Tuppik Saring, Anchal Chairperson, at SDO Conference Hall on June 8 last. The idea of forming such committee was mooted by Baling Perme, ASM Poblung-I, who was later unanimously selected as its president by the house. The committee was formed with the motive to contain this devastating Sine River in order to save SDO Headquarter and nearby hamlets from further inundation as it was observed that all earlier flood protection measures taken by the govt. with meager fund could not bring any tangible solutions. In the meeting, the house unanimously decided to contribute fund voluntarily from every house of the villages including the government officials working in Dambuk and even the product of Dambuk those who are working outside as the flood protection measures is likely to incurred a huge expenditure for engaging machineries like Escavators, Tippers etc every year. 

The Committee in the very first day made a strategy to make a drain/channel along the center of the river by dozing and to divert the river course into the channel, which normally flows either in extreme right or left banks thereby creating havocs to the inhabitant of the area. The house further fixed the rates to be contributed by GBs and Panchayat Members. The fixed rate was as ASM Chairperson - Rs 3000/-, ASM - Rs 1000/-, GB - Rs 1000/-, GPM - Rs 500/- and Villager - Rs 100/-. No specific rates for other were fixed in the meeting. To encourage the committee to function effectively for welfare of the people, Jomin Tayeng Local MLA has donated Rs 2 Lakhs in cash and also assured to engage his excavator for one month for the above purpose in this year. 

The local administration, who was a party to the meeting accepted the decision and assured to work together for the betterment of the area while the representatives from various companies including GREF encouraged the proceedings and accepted the request of the committee to spare their machineries for executing the self help venture.

The meeting was attended by all the HGBs, GBs, Panchayat Leaders, Govt. officials, Senior Citizens and representatives of various companies operating in Dambuk Sub-Division viz., M/s Soma Enterprise, M/s SP Singla, M/s TB Crusher, M/s Bora Crusher unit and GREF Dambuk.