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, Pak Stan Suk, which means the location that 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 population ancestor now gives the name Pak Stan Suk.
It is an isolated land for a long location, mostly inhabited by Ahom and Chutia community people.
There are no residents of Muslim villages there, “Guhain said to Ti.
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 come from other backup classes (OBC).
There is no minority of 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 spoken.
But we have never written it in 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.