A Correspondent Hailakandi: The people of Duttapar (Bisuram Para) under Gharmura-Bagcherra Gaon Panchayat in South Hailakandi Development Block have no access to safe drinking water even after 72 years of independence.
Located in a remote part of the district and inhabited mostly by the Reang community, the fruits of development are yet to percolate down to ground zero.
Feeling incensed by the problems confronting the community, leading citizen Shivram Reang on behalf of the residents of Bisuram Para, dashed off a letter to Deputy Commissioner Adil Khan urging him to take steps to solve the drinking water problem by sanctioning a water supply scheme.
“We are living in a very interior zone where government facility have never been implemented so far till date.
The main big problem that we are facing is that we have no pure drinking water.
Using such impure water may lead us to various critical diseases,” said Reang, urging Khan to use his good offices to sanction a water supply scheme for the inhabitants of Bisuram Para.
Following directive from Deputy Commissioner Khan, Superintending Engineer, Public Health Engineering, Nuruzzaman Choudhury assured that the department would make a survey of the area immediately and submit plan and estimate along with DPR to Dispur for sanctioning of a piped water supply scheme.
As a short term measure, Choudhury said the department would explore ways to provide drinking water facility through installation of hand pumps and ring wells.

Although villagers are dependent on agriculture, 70 percent of the villagers in Querim do not have tap water and are fully dependant on tanker water which is supplied once every week.
Apart from water scarcity the village also faces poor road connectivity, increase in settlement of migrants and unavailability of mobile network.
The issue of water scarcity was taken up in every gram sabha of the Querim Village Panchayat and it was decided to supply water for the villagers through tankers.
Out of the seven wards only around 400 villagers in Karmale, Arla and some residents of Vangal area have tap water facility while the rest of the villagers get their water from tankers.
People wait to fetch water with pots, and sometimes, they are dismayed because after a long wait, they have to carry empty water pots back home because the PWD water tanker does not turn up.
Another problem the villagers face is poor road connectivity as most of the houses are situated in the centre of a hilly arecanut plantation.
No efforts have been made by the panchayat to improve the road connectivity in the village.
Out of the 1200 houses in the panchayat almost 75 percent residents do not have proper road access.
According to villagers around 70 residents get proper mobile network while rest of the residents do not have access to mobile connectivity.
According to Querim Village Panchayat sarpanch Suhas Gaude, the panchayat was constantly in touch with the PWD to resolve the water supply issue in the village.