CM cautions people against enemies of peace and harmony

Agartala, Aug 09, 2012 : The chief minister Manik Sarkar has yet again sounded a note of caution against the conspiracies being hatched by elements inimical to peace and ethnic harmony in the state.’Insurgency in Tripura has declined but it has not yet been rooted out and there are elements both over ground and underground working in tandem to destabilize the state and destroy the ambience of peace and harmony ; you must be on your guard against this' said Sarkar . He was addressing a mixed gathering of indigenous and non-indigenous people in Kanchanpur on the occasion of the inauguration of the newly built Degree College in the Kanchanpur subdivision.

In his half an hour long speech the chief minister referred to the 'blood-soaked' days the people of Kanchanpur had passed during the height of insurgency between 1993 and 2003. 'Those were probably the darkest days in the subdivision as hundreds of indigenous and non-indigenous people fell to militant bullets, the administration could not deliver and the entire education system came to nought' Sarkar said . He pointed to the new degree college in Shuknacherra area within a km of the Kanchanpur town where the construction of the college building and other related facilities had commenced in 2010. 'It is a great pleasure to know that people of the area had donated 19 acres of land for the college and they are being felicitated today; it has cost us Rs 6 crores to raise the building and other facilities and my hope is that the college will emerge as a great centre of learning soon' the chief minister said.

Recalling the past the chief minister said that there was a time when Kanchanpur was looked upon as a remote and inaccessible place where employees and officers were transferred on punishment. 'But those days are gone as we have built many government institutions others important centres here; the word remote will simply be erased from the dictionary when the reference is made to kanchanpur. 'Besides, our goal is to ensure that students of the subdivision do not need to go outside for education; we are creating facilities so that they can have their education in their own subdivision staying at home' Sarkar asserted. He added that more colleges would be opened in the days to come.