Agartala:Tripura on Wednesday began the five-day long celebration of its 43rd statehood day with a surfeit of programmes to portray the change from monarchy to democracy.
All public offices, scho-ols and colleges observed the day remembering the glorious successes over the past four decades, said Education and Industries Minister Tapan Chakra-borty, now the acting chief minister.
‘Directives have been issued to all public service providers to vow for indivi-dual contribution for achie-ving the milestone of success visualised by the state in the platform of global development para-digm,’ Chakraborty said.
“Geographically and in terms of resource mobili-sation and capital formation, The state government alone cannot bring success unless each and every person contri-butes for the greater causes,” he said.
Along with Tripura, two other states of the region – Manipur and Meghalaya – had attained statehood on January 21, 1972 under North Eastern Region (Re-organisation) Act, 1971, he said. Princely states Tripura and Manipur were recog-nised as separate states under the union of India. Both these states merged with India in October 1949.
Two compilations – the documentation of gover-nors’ speeches on the floor of state assembly (1972-2013) and documentation of chief minister’s addresses in national forum for development of Tripura (1998-2013) have been released in the central statehood day programme.
Addressing media Information Minister Bhanu Lal Saha stated that the government published all the presentations of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar at national level on the day he assumed office. But it doesn’t mean that seven of his predecessors did not do anything for the develop-ment of the state.
‘When the fourth Left Front government, headed by Manik Sarkar, came to power in 1998, the first concept of peoples’ plan was conceived and based on the peoples’ demand the government had started announcing perspective plans for each and every sector. It yields a very positive outcome, including help in combating terrorism against a number of odds but we need to do many things in a time bound manner,’ Mr Saha reiterated.
He said during 1972-1998, all other chief ministers, including two Marxist stalwarts Nripen Chakra-borty and Dasharath Debbarma and two natio-nalist visionary Sukhomoy Sengupta and Sachindra Lal Singha, had done a lot to build basic infrastructure for ensuring the survival of the people in the state.
‘Over the past one and half-decades, Tripura has become a successful model in the country for it’s performance in governance and implementation of all the programmes besides, restoring peace, brother-hood between tribals and non-tribals and equitable development in villages and towns in terms of infrastructure,’ Saha added. (UNI)
