From our Correspondent
KOKRAJHAR, May 25: Bodoland Jajati Suraksha Manch (BJSM) on Thursday welcomed the opening of the Sadiya-Dhola bridge in Sadiya of Dibrugarh district. The me of the bridge is quite appropriate and there is no need to search any other me for this historic bridge, they said.
In a press statement issued by the president of the BJSM, Jaklal Basumatary, it was stated that geography showed the great confluence of Lohit, Dibang and Dihang rivers which form a wide water body starting point of the great Brahmaputra in this Sadiya- Dhola area. The great confluence is about 10 km in radius and the snow-fed River Yearlung, Tsampo of Tibet flows down to Assam through Aruchal known as Dihang ( ‘Dwi hong hong’ means wide river in Bodo) and then joins the great confluence at Sadiya (‘So Dwiya’ means great confluence or great water body in Bodo) with other tributaries Dibang (‘Dwi Gwbang’ means river full of water in Bodo) and Lohit (‘ Luhat’ means water or river running down from high-ups in Bodo) and flows westward through entire Assam Valley known as Brahmaputra (Burlungbuthur means destroyer and preserver character in Bodo) and joins in the Bay of Bengal through Bangladesh as Padma and Meg.
Basumatary said thus Sadiya had a great geographical significance as the source or great starting point of the Burlungbuthur River. Considering the origin of the river mes and the place mes, the linguistic scholars and historians are of opinion that the Dihang valley, Dibang valley, Lohit valley and Sadiya Dhola river confluence area was the earlier home of the great Bodo people before they spread everywhere in the Burlungbuthur valley of Assam and the me of the bridge would bear a great historical significance.
The bridge is connecting highway with mainland Assam and the important places Tezu, Rowing in Along and Tuensang in Tirap districts of Aruchal Pradesh and would serve both the States for their speedy economic, educatiol, cultural and tourism development. The BJSM welcomed it as a step towards 21st century development in river-locked States of the Northeast.