Tawang, July 8(ANI): The 285-kilometre Bhalukpong-Tawang road, the most important strategic road that leads to the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang district, is in shambles due to lack of maintenance by the Border Roads Organization (BRO).
The people of the district had recently held a meeting under the chairmanship of Arunachal Pradesh Tourism and Water Resources Minister Pema Khandu to explain their ordeal.
Planning Parliamentary Secretary Tsewang Dhondup (who represents Tawang constituency) and Arunachal Pradesh Medicinal Plants Board chairman Jambey Tashi (who represents Lumla constituency) had also attended the meeting.
Honouring the demands of the people, Pema Khandu has asked the Tawang administration to take up the matter with the BRO authorities, for prompt action.
He has also assured that he would take up the matter with Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jarbom Gamlin and urge him to apprise the BRO Director General of the anguish of the masses.
Meanwhile, the legislators of Tawang and West Kameng districts have also decided to put concerted efforts and urge the BRO to improve the road condition by ensuring immediate maintenance.
"Though Defence Minister A.K. Antony recently claimed that military presence is being strengthened in Arunachal to face any challenge from across the border, the ground reality paints a gloomy picture," pointed out Ngawang Sempa, a prominent youth leader, saying that India had faced a humiliating defeat in 1962 aggression due to lack of road connectivity.
Even after half a century, hardly anything has improved, he lamented.
Tawang, particularly the 400-year-old Tawang Monastery, has been drawing tourists from all over the world in an increasing number, who have been complaining of the very tedious journey from Bhalukpong because of pathetic road condition.
With the high potential tourism sector poised for a quantum jump, communication hazard proves a drag in the tourist flow and hit the sector badly. By Pradeep Kumar (ANI)
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