Padi Richo wants Trans-Arunachal Highway verification report in public domain

Former Arunachal Pradesh minister and senior Congress leader Padi Richo Thursday asked the deputy commissioner of Lower Subansiri district to make the Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH) verification report public. In a letter to the deputy commissioner, Richo said through a team long ago conducted verification of TAH to remove anomalies, particularly compensation payment, but the inordinate delay in submission of the report has created lot of misgivings among the people.

The senior Congress leader in the letter also drew the attention of the DC about the problems confronting the people, particularly of Ziro-Hapoli assembly constituency, due to non-completion of the TAH. He urged the DC to make the verification report public before January 24 failing which, he threatened to stage a hunger strike in front of his office from January 25.