KAMALPUR, May 16 (TIWN): The state government and the leaders often used to blame the Central policy for deprivation of Tripura in the sector of heavy industry.

 Further, the topography of the state also remained a burden for setting up of such industries, as the experts used to express. Hence the industrial sectors or hubs like Kumarghat and Bodhjungnagar remained a failure.

The trumpeting leftist rulers and leaders of the state often used to blame the Central government for adopting an anti- industry policy especially for Tripura. But, a single instance would be enough to bring the attitude of the state government under scanner.

On 19 th November, 1975 the then Chief Minister of Tripura Sukhomoy Sengupta laid the foundation stone of the state’s first paper mill at Ashrampally, Kumarghat. The setting up was on the occasion of birthday of Indira Gandhi. Till then 41 years got passed. That paper mill got shifted to Panchgram on 1979. And the place at Ashrampally by the Kumarghat-Kailasahar road remained fenced with wire and got covered with jungles.

From 1978, the state got ruled by the leftists leaving the five years from 1988 to 1993. The rulers continued to declare their plans and programs to bring heavy industries in the state. Kuamrghat and Bodhjungnagar got declared as industrial hubs. Many dreams got woven.

And many promises perished. But, the state government never found keen to bring another industry at the same place. Hence, the jungle continued to become denser with every passing day destroying the possibility of any resurrection of the area.

Even the local representative in the Assembly not found uttering a single word in this regard. Now, if the reality remained so rude then how the state could be able to have some place in the industrial map of the country in coming 41 years?