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Tribal leader promises infrastructure in 8 months

Lalgarh (WB): Hinting at a State within a State, tribal leader Chhatradhar Mahato said his organisation could build infrastructure in just eight months in restive Lalgarh, which the State Government could not do in 32 years.

“If the State Government had done 10 per cent of the work we did, the situation would have been different,” Mr. Mahato, Convenor of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) told PTI.

“We have laid at least 50 km of gravel path, dug tanks and tube wells and revived irrigation canals with the help of villagers,” he said. He claimed the PCAPA built a 60-feet-deep reservoir at Barapelia, where its headquarters is situated, and planned to revive a canal for irrigation. A health centre with a doctor was also functioning at Kantapahari, he said.

Though the government built the road to Midnapore town, all link roads were constructed by the PCAPA, he said.

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