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Chief minister Mr Pawan Kumar Chamling who is on an official tour to Delhi, has requested the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) for construction of a second bypass for smooth flow of traffic as the existing Indira bypass is proving inadequate due to heavy traffic load, both civilian and military.
Mr Chamling met the director general of BRO, Mr SK Rao, in New Delhi yesterday to place his demand.
The proposed second bypass may also work as a direct link to the Gangtok-Nathula road which is poised to take heavy traffic flow after the resumption of border trade. The state government has already done a preliminary survey for the proposed bypass from Ranipul-Marchak-Ranka and Tashi View Point, above Gangtok.
The chief minister also requested the director general to recruit civil engineers and diploma holders from Sikkim to tide over the shortage of personnel in the BRO.
Mr Chamling also met the Union power minister, Mr Sushil Kumar Shinde, and requested him to release funds for implementing power projects for development of power facilities in Sikkim .
The interventions have sought in four areas like sanction of phase III distribution and reformation project, Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidhuti Karan Yojna and for improving delivery service in power sector.
In his meeting with Mr PR Kyndiah, the Union minister for tribal affairs, Mr Chamling placed four long pending issues of the state and requested for early resolution.
Recognition of Lepchas as the most primitive tribe, holding of special census of Limboo Tamang communities, inclusion of other ethnic communities in ST category and declaration of the remaining communities of Sikkim in the Central OBC list were the demands placed by the chief minister to Mr Kyndiah, official sources said here today.

Courtesy: The Statesman

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