Arunachal CM has appealed to the people to stop migration from the border areas.
Arunachal CM has appealed to the people to stop migration from the border areas.
Arunachal CM has appealed to the people to stop migration
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Monday urged people living in border areas to stop migrating to other places.
Addressing a public meeting at Koloriang in the remote Kurung Kumey district, Khandu urged the people to monitor all development projects so that funds are used judiciously without any chance of misuse.
“Don’t let development funds disappear into thin air,” Khandu pleaded.
Khandu, who is on a two-day visit to one of the remotest districts, became the first Chief Minister of the state to reach the foothills near the India-China border.
Expressing concern over the displacement of people from border villages like Daman, Khandu questioned who would oversee development projects if residents continue to leave the area, an official statement said.
” Today the remote and border villages are being connected.
It is time that the people of these areas stop migrating to other places leaving their ancestral lands. These areas are being developed. And should be preserved for future generations,” he said.
When told by BRO officials that improved road connectivity in recent years has led to reverse migration, Khandu said it was a welcome trend.
Encouraging people to move back to their own lands from their makeshift settlements in urban areas, Khandu said the next few years would see a huge improvement in connectivity in the border areas of the state.
“Very recently, the Union Ministry of Roads, Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has approved a 1,500 km long Frontier Highway that will connect all the border areas of the state from east to west and about 1,000 km in between.
It will connect connecting roads. Highways,” he said.
He said that once the projects are completed, all the border districts will be well connected.
After landing in Parsi-Parlo area in the morning, Khandu inaugurated the newly constructed 20.06 km PMGSY road from Parsi-Parlo to Yaluha.
