BADO Sohra

Name of the Scheme: Construction of Government LP School Building at Dalia.

Amount Sanctioned: Rs. 6.00 lacs

Years of Schemes: SCA(BADP)2014-15.

Dalia Govt. LP School lying close to the border fencing under Sohra block is a well functioning government LP School serving the border area pupils of the village.
The existing school building is very old and dilapidated and as such is not convenient for holding classes especially during rainy seasons.
The Border Areas Department has extended financial aid to the SMC from SCA(BADP) with the help of which the SMC could construct their RCC school building. The building was utilized just after its completion.

Name of the Scheme: Rest House, Fencing Wall and Approach Road

Amount Sanctioned: Rs. 29.30 lacs

Years of Schemes: SCA (BADP) 2014-15

Majai village is one of the border villages under Sohra block locating close to Bangladesh. The village has a cluster of Government sub offices like that of the Land Custom, the Forest, the Health (Sub Centre), the Police, the Border Security Force located just adjacent to the Rest House, etc. Exporters and tourists are regular visitors of the village. In order to facilitate the Society, the Government officials of the above offices, the exporters and others to hold their meetings, conduct programs for the development of the area and also to provide lodging facility to them, the Society for Rural Development (SRD), Bholaganj had taken the initiative of proposing and constructing this Rest House which includes the boundary fencing wall and the approach road out of the SCA (BADP) scheme. Management of the Rest House is done by the Society for Rural Development (SRD), Bholaganj.

Name of the Scheme: Footbridge at Khahumrin, Mawlong.

Amount Sanctioned: Rs. 5.00 lacs

Years of Schemes: SCA (BADP) 2014-15

Khahumrin is a village having more than 170 households lying adjacent to Ichamati village both under Mawlong sirdarship of Sohra Border Areas Block. One river by the name "Khahumrin river" runs inside the village and as such prior to the construction of this footbridge, whenever this river swelled up, the village was literally split in two. In the absence of any means of infrastructural connectivity like footbridges, etc., the hardship faced by the villagers in commuting between themselves could be plainly understood by one and all. This RCC footbridge constructed under Special Central Assistance under Border Area Development Programme has helped a lot in bridging this particular infrastructural gap at Khahumrin for the betterment of these villagers.

Name of the Scheme: Footbridge over Wahumshet at Nongpriang Village

Amount Sanctioned: Rs. 11.00 lacs

Years of Schemes: SCA (BADP) 2014-15

Nongpriang village like many other border areas villages is not yet saturated with means of infrastructural connectivity. The people of this village earn their livelihood mainly from horticultural activities. There are bridgeless rivers and streams which often impede the poor cultivators of the village from reaching their fields during monsoon. The Border Areas Development, Sohra with what ever little fund it had received, made sanction in two phases for the construction of this footbridge over Wahumshet for improving the livelihood activities of the villagers.