Tukargram Cries for Attention

At a time when the Assam government is mulling digitisation of transactions across the state, a village on the Indo-Bangla border is still deprived of basic facilities. Despite 300-years of existence, this border village lacks drinking water, electricity, roads etc. Northeast Today reports.

- Sayantani Deb

63-year-old Riju Ahmed, a resident of Tukargram village, still believes that things would change one day. The sexagenarian hopes authorities would one day listen to their plea and would take steps for the development of the village, which is in a way ‘alien’ for the rest of the country.

Tukaragram, a small hamlet nestled in the bank of river Barak and Kushiara in no man’s land between India and Bangladesh, is around 40 kms from Silchar, the district headquarters of Cachar, and 13 kms from Karimganj town.

The 300-year-old village of around 140 families has no electricity, healthcare facilities, drinking water facilities and road. Over 1,400 people of the village have been struggling hard to meet their basic necessities for years. Visiting the village is like going back a few decades in time - in the absence of electricity, life comes to a standstill after sunset. This village has another distinctive feature as it is the only village in Assam where administrative works are based on the two districts.