KHOWAI, April 17 (TIWN): Frustrated with the non-payment of REGA wages for long time, the irritated workers tried to burn down the Sarddukarkari ADC village panchayat office alongwith the Panchayat staffs inside it. Around 350 villagers of Sarddukarkari ADC village under Teliamura sub- division of Khowai were not getting their payments even after performing MGNREGA work for 20 days during last February. The panchayat officials were delaying the payment for the last eight days but promised the workers to pay their wages on Thursday. Promised by the Panchayat officials, the villagers went to collect their money with high expectations but only realized that they would not be paid the money even on Thrusday. Hearing this, the workers went berserk and ransacked the panchayat office. Mob destroyed official papers, computers, furnitures of the panchayat office and locked the panchayat staffs including the Panchayat Secretary Dhirendra Debbarma in side the Panchayat office. Angry with the devious attitude of the panchayat staffs, the frustrated workers were preparing to put the panchayat office under fire alongwith the staffs inside. Tripura's MGNREGA muti-crore corruptions and theft by CM's close officials like BDO Bimal Chakraborty kind of people causing violent eruptions of anger in various places of Tripura.

Getting the information from people around the spot about the high voltage situation, a team of high police officials and administrative staffs led by Khowai district DM N. Darlong, SP Ratiranjan Debnath, SDPO Ajit Pratap Singh, BDO Abhijit Chakraborty alongwith a strong police and TSR team rushed to the spot to prevent any untoward incident there.

The police used lathi charge and tear gas shell to disperse the agitated mob.Few workers sustained minor injuries in the lathi charge.  The situation still remains tense in the area and police and TSR personnel have been deployed in the area to prevent any untoward incident in the place.

It may be mentioned here that the entire state is witnessing a flare up in the REGA payment issue of late and more and more places are being engulfed by the REGA .

Its hightime that Tripura's egoist CM and CPI-M leadership open their eyes and see the  massive anger brewing among MGNREGA workers, unemployed youths across the state which now started erupting in vaious places before it engulfs the entire corruption tainted administration.