Demand for creation of Kamle district

from our correspondent

Itagar, Aug 23: Kamle District Demand Committee (KDDC) led by Raga MLA Tamar Murtem on Monday met Chief Minister Pema Khandu at his officer chamber to press for its demand of creating Kamle district bifurcating portion of Lower Subansiri and Upper Subansiri districts.

The committee has been demanding creation of the new district saying that people of the constituency often have to face administrative inconvenience.

‘Public of the Raga constituency is divided into two districts. Administrative is controlled from Lower Subansiri district and Election matter is controlled from Daporijo administration which is in Upper Subansiri district. During elections, the election materials have to be deposited at Daporijo from areas as far as Dollungmukh which is harassment,’ the memorandum submitted to the CM said.

The memorandum said that Raga constituency having more than 25,000 population residing in both Upper Subansiri and Lower Subansiri districts is still lagging far behind in the development front as compared to other parts of the state.

Sixty percent of the populations of Raga constituency come under Lower Subansiri and rest 40 percent comes under Upper Subansiri. There are 7 ZPM segments under Raga Constituency out of which 3 ZPM segments falls under Upper Subansiri and 4 comes under Lower Subansiri, MLA Murtem said.

Further, the people of Raga have doted land measuring 1967174.50 Sqmt for establishment of the proposed district headquarters at Raga, Murtem further informed.

The memorandum urged the CM to fulfill the ‘genuine’ demand of people as the creation of the new district will pave way for all round development of the area. Responding to the committee, the CM assured that the issue would be raised in the next cabinet meeting, Murtem added.