Khowai, 18 July 2022: After several days of suffering and crisis, people of Khowai Champahour and Behalabari finally took to blocking road demanding electricity and drinking in the area. The road blockade took place in two different places under Khowai district on Monday.
Aggrieved people participated in the road blockade program at Champahour and Behalabari of Tulasikhar block of Khowai sub-division demanding government initiatives to solve the problem of drinking water and electricity on Monday.
There has been an unlimited shortage of drinking water for the last few years in the ADC village areas of East and West Champahour, East and West Takchaya, Shikaribari etc. in Champahaur area. In addition to this, the public life is in a terrible state due to the shortage of drinking water. Even after several demands verbally and officially, there was no change in the situation. So, people were forced to block the road in Champahour.
The blockade disrupted traffic for several hours. Busy people were stuck on both sides, and travel to the destination was obstructed. Later, once the officials of the drinking water and hygiene department of Tulashikhar reached the spot and talked to the people participating in the blockade and assured to take necessary measures to resolve the drinking water crisis within a few days. The road blockade was withdrawn when the officials promised regular water supply by repairing various faults and deviations in pipeline water supply project machinery.
On this day, the situation was the same in Behalabari. There too, people who were fed up with the demand for electricity, and began to block the Khowai to Kamalpur road from the morning. According to the lcoals, for the last twelve days, there was no electricity in Behalabari, East Behalabari, West Lakshichhara, Bidyabil, and East and West Bachaibari areas of ADC Village.
Alleged excessive degradation of service. During the day, even in the middle of the electricity activity, electricity was seen for a few hours. But after the evening, the electricity was always dead throughout the night.
