By Tripura24.in Bureau
AGARTALA | June 24, 2026: Escalating their civic agitation over regional connectivity bottlenecks, the CPIM Sonaura Sub-divisional Regional Committee today submitted a comprehensive memorandum to the Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department (PWD). The delegation demanded immediate administrative intervention to repair deteriorating road networks, overhaul clogged drainage systems, and restore basic infrastructure lines across the sub-division.
The deputation program witnessed a strong show of strength, featuring senior left leadership alongside frontline youth wings. Leading the delegation from the front was the State President of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), Shri Nabarun Deb, accompanied by a large group of regional committee executives and local residents.
Youth Leadership Slams Infrastructural Neglect
The mobilization highlights the growing public resentment over the severe lack of maintenance on major arterial roads linking rural pockets to urban markets. The left youth front asserted that the sub-division’s crumbling road networks have turned commuter transits highly hazardous, especially during the peak monsoon season.
Addressing reporters after submitting the deputation, DYFI State President Nabarun Deb warned that the opposition will launch a massive civil disobedience movement if the engineering wing fails to execute on-ground repairs within a stipulated timeframe.
”The condition of the roads in the Sonaura sub-division has become entirely unpliable. Potholes have turned into major accident traps, and the local administration has turned a blind eye to the daily struggles of schoolgoers, patients, and local traders. Today, we have presented a clear, data-backed list of dilapidated road segments to the PWD Chief Engineer. We have received an administrative assurance, but we want action, not files. If emergency restoration work does not begin immediately on the ground, DYFI and CPIM will completely shut down administrative operations through intense democratic protests,” DYFI State President Nabarun Deb stated.
Key Demands Lodged with the PWD Chief Engineer
The joint committee outlined a structured charter of immediate infrastructural fixes to prevent further sub-divisional isolation during the monsoon cycle:
- Emergency Carpet Renovation: Launching immediate brick-soling and bituminous hot-mixing on priority stretches connecting rural markets to sub-divisional hospitals.
- Overhauling Urban Culverts: Reconstructing broken roadside culverts and implementing regular de-siltation schedules to eliminate flash waterlogging along the highways.
- Sub-Divisional Road Safety Markers: Installing high-visibility warning signs, speed restrictions, and proper barricades at critical landslide-prone junctions across the hilly terrains.
The PWD Chief Engineer reportedly assured the left delegation that a technical supervisory team would be dispatched to evaluate the structural integrity of the specified road zones and initiate emergency patchwork at the earliest.
