Statesman News Service
MALDA, 11 JAN: A faction feud in the Congress led local people in Ratua to boycott the national pulse polio immunisation programme. The boycott continues since yesterday.
According to the civil administration in Malda, a faction in the Congress instigated the villagers to boycott the pulse polio immunization programme in Ratua demanding roads in that area. Villagers in Ratua and Harishchandrapur blocks in Chanchal sub division boycotted pulse polio immunization yesterday as well demanding road and electricity.
Though the local administration succeed in convincing the locals to avail of the programme at Dhangara, Bishanpur and Sadlichak villages in Harishchandrapur block, they failed to persuade the residents of Chandmoni-I and Chandmoni-II gram panchayats, who are rigid on their stand. Residents of the two villages today rejected health workers who were carrying out the immunization programme.
The chief medical officer of health in Malda Dr Srikanta Roy today reported the matter of the villagers’ resistance at Chandmoni-I & II to the Malda district magistrate Mr Sridhar Ghosh and the sabhadhipati of the Congress led Malda Zilla Parishad, Mrs Sabina Yeasmin. The CMOH has also sought the sabhadhipati's help to carry out the programme in the two above-mentioned areas. The sabhadhipati in turn contacted the Kharba MLA Mrs Sabitri Mitra on the issue. Mrs Mitra reportedly told the sabhadipati that the decision to boycott pulse polio immunization was not new.
“Last year too the people of those areas had boycotted the pulse polio immunization programme against the same demands. It is regrettable that I failed to construct roads in that area although I have been an MLA for the past 20 years. The people are aggrieved with the poor road conditions in that area. I support the people's decision,” Mrs Mitra said.
She went on to add: “I had requested the former sabhadhipati of the Congress led Malda Zilla Parishad, Mr Goutam Chakraborty, to construct a road between Maharajnagar and Motinagar under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojona scheme. The proposal was accepted but not implemented. I was latter told that the road would be constructed with funds from the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund but, nothing has been done till now.”
Concerned with the development, the Malda district magistrate today asked the Chanchal SDO and the concerned block development officers to take initiative to subside the people's grievance and ensure the immunization programme in the areas of resistance.
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