Margao: Four months ago, the Minister of Tribal Govind Gaude, during his visit to the remote village of Bukit Karla, which was held at the promise by doing some infrastructure work under the tribal sub-plan, including road access to the village.
In the village, located in the inner recess of the Netrevali Sanguem forest, 94-year-old Bhomo Gaonkar, who had fought the sepsis on his left ankle, then refused Gaude guarantees as a blank rhetoric of politicians.
“We have heard many guarantees like that in the past,” Bhomo said then told TI.
“We know this is the election time, and they will provide the same guarantee again.
If they made this way as they convinced before, I would not suffer like this.
I am now just waiting for the road to Vaikunth (death, figuratively).” Bhomo Not completely wrong.
When asking the fate of his promises he had a plate in Karla on a cloudy morning, Gaude told the toi last week that Hotmixing the road will be taken soon, now the rainy season ends.
“Once the road is finished, another problem related to the power and water supply can be taken,” he said.
Toi, in UDinya dated July 4, has highlighted the tribulation of the Warla residents.
Although blessed with a natural bounty, Karla does not have modern basic facilities – even motorized access roads to this village.
Narrow, steep and winding narrow roads, and winding from Cajur, located at a relatively lower altitude, leading to Karla.
However, maneuvering the road is not a cruel task – a big crater that has developed throughout the road makes a motorcycle ride into a very risky matter.
The nearest hospital is the main health center in Quepem or Curchorem, almost 25 km away.
Without easy access to health care facilities, Bhomo Nonagenarian was forced to rely on traditional herbal medicines prepared by his wife to treat the sepsis.
“The wound now healed slowly,” said Bhomo, “and I can take a few steps with difficulty, but what happens to the promise of the road that has been promised by our Sarkar?” In the absence of camping roads, villagers are given helplessly at the time of medical emergency because there is no ambulance that can travel to this road.
Primary schools for students here are in Cajur, and nearby secondary schools in Maina.
Middle school students from Karla, numbered around ten, took an alternative route to get to their school – the lane through a dense forest that took it more than forty minutes to get down and one and a half hours to beat.
It becomes more risky during the rainy season, because the path is always flooded, and rocks, slippery.
For higher secondary education and higher universities, as well as for local residents traveling for weekly shopping, they walked along Jalan 4 Km to Cajur, from where they get a college bus or public transportation to Tyamol (20km) or Curchorem (25 km) ).
Hamlders who are truly inhabited by Tribal, who are under Pancayat Curch, have more than 100 populations, and around 20 houses.
Power outages, which are often brought to fallen trees that take electrical cables, take hours, making learning at night almost impossible.
A distant well is the only source of drinking water for the village.