\nIn a press release, USSC president T. Pithrongse Anar and general secretary Achum Thonger said during the inspection, they found out that the machinery, equipments and manpower were not sufficient enough to expedite the work within the given stipulated period as per the DPR.
\nUnited Sangtam Students\u2019 Conference stated that they also detected use of poor quality materials.
\nAccording to USSC, beneficiary villages also expressed \u201cutmost\u201d displeasure over the improper implementation of the said scheme.
\nThey reportedly stated that despite of their sincere appeal some contractor had gone up to the extent of threatening and warning the poor village elders. As such, USSC said the village council leaders had no choice but stop extending cooperation to the respective contractors.
\nThey also stated that many contractors did not pay heed to their request instead resulted in confrontation and misunderstandings.
\nUSSC taking all these into account has appealed to the nodal department to intervene immediately and inspect the same with respective village council leaders and NGOs to prevent further misunderstanding between the government and the public and for proper implementation.
\nUSSC also urged the nodal department to withhold any bills under Sangtam jurisdiction for the interest of the Sangtam people.
\nConference directed all the contractors to immediately stop the ongoing works with effect from the date of publication of this letter till further notifications from its office. Meanwhile, the signatories have requested all the village elders to extend cooperation to USSC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"