With villagers in various interior parts of Assam living in a condition where they are deprived from the facilities such as good road, communication and various other facilities, taking due care by the concerned authorities to develop the remote areas of interior Assam is essential. Numbers of villages in Assam have reportedly been facing the problem of bad road conditions, poor facility of drinking water, medical, electricity, non introduction of banking facilities and pathetic health care facilities.
Road communication of the remote village area like Amguri under the Silapathar sub division is in a pathetic condition and therefore has created obstacles to provide better services by the Mobile Medical Unit under The National Rural Health Mission (NHRM).The locals of the Greater Amguri village have been deprived of medicine facilities, non availability of doctors, ANM etc for quite sometime now. Also, the Assam-Nagaland border villages of Peoliphukan and Napukhuri Gaon are in a deplorable condition.
The Namdang Tribal Ali, the chief link roads under Nazira subdivision is also in a bad condition. The locals of the village area further alleged the non availability of electricity in the ward numbers 3, 8 and 9 and also revealed the poor state of medical and education facilities that has been bothering the villagers since long time. The Wara Basti Assam-Arunachal border cannot be left out from facing the problems of lower infrastructure.
The village which is 100 Km from Tinsukia is cut off by the river on one side and surrounded by thick forests. The village has no road, electricity or communication facility. Interestingly, pure drinking water is said to be a luxury in this village.
Furthermore, the Hamren subdivision is not connected with any national highway nor the railway. Such bad road communication has led the people of the sub division to rely on State-run roads and other roads. Consequently, the villagers are facing various problems such as the high commodity prices.
The apathy of the concerned authorities has been highlighted for the condition of the Hamren subdivision. The roads have not been repaired since the last couple of years and the high prices of the commodities are said to be owing to the bad communication system. As a result, the people have to depend primarily on State-run roads and other roads. But due to the neglect and lack of will power on the part of the authorities concerned to repair these roads since the last couple of years and soaring prices of essential commodities as a fallout of the bad communication system, the woes of the people of this subdivision have been compounded.
According to sources, the 60-km NEC Road from Baithalangsho to Khanduli via sub divisional headquarters Hamren is in such a pathetic condition that there is water logging in several stretches at the slightest of showers. Therefore, taking due care of such remote villages of the state by the concerned authority is utmost important.