Guwahati: Naming the Water Supply Project After ‘Pakistan’ in Dhemaji Assam Regulation, inhabited by the ethnic community, it has triggered controversy force the public health engineering department to remove ‘Pakistan’ from a signboard.
Simple filological distortion is the root of controversy where the original name, Mr.
Stan Suk, which means that the location can be achieved through winding roads, has become ‘Pakisthan Suk’! Over the years, this name has been circulating and even official documents have questioned the name.
So the PHE department named the project ‘Pakistan Suba (Meaning of Colonies) of the Water Supply Scheme’.
Minister of PHE, Ranjeet Kumar Dass, assured that he would solve the problem and take action quickly.
The sub-division officer, Dhemaji (aware), Nandita Roy Guhain, who led the officer inspection team from the District Administration on Thursday, said, “the real name ‘Pak Stan Suk’ somehow to be ‘Pakistan Suk’ and ‘Pakistan’ is officially Recorded in the Document of the PHE Department.
“” The ancestors of these residents gave the name of Pak Stan Suk.
It was an isolated land for a long location, mostly inhabited by Ahom and Chutia community people.
There are no residents of Muslim villages there, “Guhain Toi said.
Lachit Sena’s beer activist removes the name of Pakistan from the project name board on Wednesday because the PHE department does not take action even though the problem creates a storm in the media in the past few days.
Dass personally has a word with Dhemuji Mla and Minister of Education Romanj Pegu and Jal Jeevan Mission, Assam, director, considering the gravity of the problem.
Assam Jal Jeevan’s mission director, Akash Deep said, as informed by Dhemuji DC, ‘Pakistan Suba’ has been removed temporarily.
Gohain later said that the project had changed his name to Burhakuri Dakhin Suk after Revenue Village Burhakuri where it came.
“People who live here are from other backwards (OBC).
There are no minority people who can be found there,” he said.
The Head of Burhakuri Village, Parul Chutia (38), said the entire village has 249 families and water supply projects built for the ‘Pakistani Suk’ family.
Chutia said the village of Burhakuri has four segments and ‘Pakistan Suk’ is one of them.
“That’s the way the name is pronounced.
But we have never written it in any official communication,” he added.
Government sources say the PHE department’s record shows that since 1992 this name has been used.
“There are formalities that need to be completed before the name ‘Pakistan’ is permanently deleted,” said the source.