One-month deadline to minister
SHILLONG: A delegation of Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC) and Ri War Mihngi Development Council has threatened to agitate if the election promises made by local MLA and Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong are not fulfilled, and issued a deadline of one month for Tynsong to respond.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, president of HYC Ri War Mihngi circle, Edmund Khongngai, said that other than better road connectivity, Pynursla constituency also craves attention in other fronts such as in availing better medical facilities, trade improvement with Bangladesh in the border areas.
Khongngai said that the then-Congress MLA Prestone Tynsong had made several election promises since 2013 and recalled that the then-Congress veteran leader and currently NPP member, DD Lapang, had also campaigned for Tynsong.
Stating that trade has been continuing for a long time between the people in the border areas and Bangladeshis, he said, “Till date, there is no border haat. He has been making false promises to the people.”
Khongngai alleged that local people often take the Bangladeshis to the interior places of Pynursla for illegal trade, which often leads to other criminal activities. The border haats were proposed to be at Hat Thymmai and Lyngkhat.
Again, another election promise of Tynsong was to set up residential schools, Khongngai said, lamenting that there is no proper government educational institution in the constituency.
He added that the election promise of Tynsong to establish Ri War Mihngi College is also not yet fulfilled.
Khongngai also recalled another election promise of Tynsong to develop the major tourist sites, which will also generate employment opportunity for the youth of the region.
Apart from the promises, Khongngai turned to demands which comprise of better medical facilities and setting up of two police outposts in Pynursla.
He said that the Pynursla CHC, housing 30 beds, currently caters to 140 villages, which is not feasible for a CHC to house sick people of such a large population.
Khongngai added that in the entire constituency, there are four sub-centres and claimed that Mawkynrew constituency, which is backward when compared to Pynursla, has eight sub-centres.
He said there should at least be two police outposts in Pynursla for the safety and security of the people.
He added it is up to the government to identify the place to set up the outposts.