Tinsukia District Information & Public Relations office in need of renovation

OUR CORRESPONDENT

TINSUKIA: The Tinsukia DIPR (District Information & Public Relations) office is in a deplorable state.

For quite some time, there has been no incumbent officer. Presently an executive magistrate has been given the additional charge of DIPRO (in-charge). Moreover, the office located at TDA Housing Complex is in dilapidated condition.

Time and again, the journalist fraternity with members of the Tinsukia District Journalists' Association raised this issue; and even submitted a memorandum to the then Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal before the Assembly election. However, there was no positive result.

There was also a proposal to shift the office close to the Tinsukia Deputy Commissioner's office from the present location. However, the prime constraint is the loudspeaker in the FLS (Fixed Loudspeaker System) connectivity that requires a total facelift. As of now, only four points out of the 32 FLS are in order.

Faced with such immense difficulties, Assistant Commissioner and DIPRO in-charge Niluram Sarma recently sent a proposal on May 31 to the Director, Information & Public Relations in Dispur seeking his intervention to solve the problems in the office.

He also pointed out that the office head assistant Jibon Kr Phukan — who was served a show-cause notice for dereliction of duty and absconding — should be transferred and replaced.

He also sought measures to rectify the defunct FLS, adding that the information-sharing machinery of the office is presently crippled also because the office does not have any technical operator. He urged the higher authorities to ensure that adequate human resources are made available in the Tinsukia office of the DIPRO.

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