Rangthong-Ngunraw a dirt track
MAWKYRWAT: The Khasi Student Union, Mawkyrwat Circle, along with five villages from Rangjadong area, 20km from Mawkyrwat, has set a two-month deadline for the state government to blacktop the 40-year-old Rangthong-Ngunraw road or face agitation.
The decisions was taken at a public meeting held on Saturday at Rangjadong village which was also attended by the headmen and representatives from the five villages – Rangjadong, Kensimphlang, Mawlieh, Mawlar and Ngunraw.
The Union and the people of the five villages took the decision after meeting and talk with the local MLA, MM Danggo in 2011did not bear fruit.
Speaking at the meeting, the headmen and representatives of the villages expressed disappointment over the failure of the successive governments in the last 40 years to blacktop the 12km road.
“The failure of the government to blacktop the road has created many problems to the people in the area. Last December the 108 vehicle refused to come to our village to pick up the pregnant lady for delivery in the hospital because of the poor conditions of the road and they told us to bring the lady up to Rangthong village,” said the secretary of Kensimphlang village, W Syiemlieh.
KSU President of Mawkyrwat Circle, Forward Nongrem, said that if the state government fails to start blacktopping the road within two months, the KSU and the people of the area will resort to agitation.
“We will do anything for the sake of development of the area which the state government did not do anything in the last 40 years,” Nongrem said.