Chokpot sub-division inaugurated
TURA: The State Government will soon release the estimated cost for repairing NH-62 and approve construction of Chokpot-Sibbari Road, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said on Monday.
Addressing a gathering at the inauguration of the new civil sub-division of Chokpot in South Garo Hills, Sangma said, “Soon the estimate for NH-62 will be given for construction to begin.”
NH-62 begins from Dudhnoi in Assam’s Goalpara district and touches the coal-rich belt of Nangalbibra, Siju and Baghmara in South Garo Hills and ends at Karonggre village near Kherapara.
The national highway is damaged due to lack of maintenance and last year, hundreds of people took to the streets in Baghmara, which is 49km from Chokpot, to protest against the delay in repairing it.
On the government’s decision to create new civil subdivisions, Sangma said the aim is to make the area of administration smaller.
“This will enable government officials to focus on the needs of people. It will also create opportunities for everyone and I call upon all to do justice to the creation of the new sub-division,” said the chief minister ad added that the new administrative set-up would result in other government line departments coming up in Chokpot. Chokpot was previously a community and rural block. As a civil sub-division, it now has a police station and a primary health centre. The Government also has plans to upgrade two police outposts, Sangkinigre and Silkigre, into full-fledged stations.
The custodian of the land, Nokma Migen M. Sangma, donated 23.57 hectares for the establishment of the new civil subdivision, which will have a jurisdiction area of 441 sq.km, 307 villages and a population of 40,485 people.