From Our Correspondent
JOWAI, Nov 26: In previous years when Iawmusiang market was in its traditional configuration where respective stalls were constructed with wooden planks and tin sheets with footpaths of paved stones, it put people at ease as both the commuters and the shopkeepers engaged in the marketplace.
Iawmusiang Market is the largest trade centre in Jaintia Hills where merchants and business people share their commodities deal and bargain, especially on the weekly market day (Musiang).
Farming output and agricultural produce are brought to this mart and are sold and purchased among the people from in and outside Jaintia Hills as well.
All at once through the last two decades, the then government optimistically initiated the move in constructing new and advanced structures for the market by dismantling the old construction with extension of different stalls and alleys to a proportionate stretch system.
To everyone’s dismay and disorientation for 22 years, still living next door to unfulfilled and half-broken promise of Jowai Super Market Complex, which originally commenced in 2001, authorised by the Ministry of DoNER, is left in a complete halt
hitherto with no indications of hope as if it were a mystery of specters travelling through obstacles of the imminent despair for those relying on trade and daily earning.
At this moment of time, it is witnessed that a certain section of the abandoned market patch has turned into a dumping flat resulting from lack of proper fencing and lookout personnel as required.
Summing up on this vantage point, the government and the Jaintia Hills Autonomous District Council would rather seek instantaneous measure and strategy to accomplish the desired trade centre of Jaintia Hills in order to satiate the long-awaited yearning of the people by fulfilling the ‘Lost Glory’ of Jowai in particular and Jaintia Hills in general.