RailEnquiry

A team of officials of the Northern Frontier Railway were blocked from conducting re-survey for the land to be affected in the construction of Jiribam-Tupul railway line by the villagers of Khumji village in interior Tamenglong district.

A delay report reaching here, Thursday said that the officials of the NF Railways had gone to the Khumji part-II for conducting the re-survey on August 24 last.  However, they came back without conducting the survey work after a strong resistance from the villagers.

The villagers pressed the survey team to show them the exact amount of fund sanctioned by the Central government for paying compensations for the land to be affected by the railway line construction, besides demanding payment of the compensation as per first survey report conducted in 2009-10.

The villagers even threatened the survey team of dire consequences if the re-survey work is carried out against the wishes of the people. 

As the situation turned tense, the survey team returned from the village without carrying out the survey work, a police source said as per a complaint lodged by the officials of NF Railways included in the survey team.

A case has been registered at Nungba police station of Tamenglong district based the complaint lodged by the officials, the source added.