Asserting that Western Sumis and Sumis in general have “suffered tremendously in every aspect” due to deplorable condition of roads, the Western Sumi Students’ Union (WSSU) Monday threatened to launch “road revolution” if the state government failed to “act positively in time.”
WSSU president Kughato Achumi said that economic conditions of the Sumis was shattered, their school and education system lagging behind, health care system deteriorating and the economic and social life was “consistently becoming miserable.”
WSSU stated that diverting or neglecting roads leading to Sumi villages, towns, areas has become “a regular state of affairs” and has become “increasingly unbearable.” WSSU alleged that the “step motherly treatment” to the people of Western Sumis and Sumis in general would “not be tolerated any more” by it as the students “have patiently waited enough.” It stated that good roads and development promised by the government “seems to be a fallacy in Sumi inhabited areas.”
Further, WSSU has appealed the responsible contractor engaged in the construction of road leading to Niuland town, to resume the work at the earliest, as the particular road serve as a lifeline for many other communities besides Sumis.