Roads that exist only in government files. Payments cleared for work barely done. And a contractor walking away with public money while villages remain cut off. That’s the ugly picture emerging from Changlang district, as the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) steps in to investigate serious irregularities in the implementation of PMGSY road projects under the DPIU-I RWD Division.
‘Complete on Paper, Incomplete on Ground’
The ACB has formally registered a case following a complaint filed by the 53rd North and South Changlang BJP mandal presidents along with seven others. According to the complainants, two road projects under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana — the PMGSY road from CK Road to Wotlom (Thamiyang) under Package No AR/01/02/052 Phase-II, and the CK Road to Jongpho-Hate road — were recorded as completed and paid for in official records, even though on-ground reality tells a completely different story. Anyone who has ever driven through rural Arunachal knows how desperately communities depend on these roads. Seeing them faked on paper is nothing short of a betrayal.
The Numbers Tell the Whole Story
The details are damning. On the Wotlom (Thamiyang) road, only around 2 kilometres of physical work has reportedly been completed, and the remaining funds are already insufficient to finish what’s left. The second project — the CK Road to Jongpho-Hate stretch — has seen only about 50 percent of blacktopping work completed. Yet, a completion certificate has been issued against it. A completion certificate. For a road that’s half done. The projects were reportedly executed by one Sahabuddin Siddique of Duliajan, Assam, who allegedly failed to complete either project within the stipulated period.
Complaints Ignored, ACB Finally Acts
The complainants say they didn’t stay silent. They raised concerns verbally and in writing, taking it all the way up to the executive engineer level. Nothing happened. On 6 August 2025, the mandal presidents formally wrote to the Changlang Deputy Commissioner, flagging what they described as gross irregularities and negligence. It took months, but the ACB eventually moved. An inspection team visited both project sites on 24 March 2026, conducting physical verification in the presence of the complainants and the incumbent DPIU-I PMGSY officials.
Six Officials Now Under the Scanner
The investigation is currently aimed at establishing the specific roles of six engineers and officials under DPIU-I Changlang — EE Hangtim Rekhung, EE Bindung Rido Alo, AE Ponya Lollen, JE Bapok Borang, JE Sanju Gyadi, and retired DA/cashier-in-charge Nirmal Choudhary. These are the names the ACB is now looking at to determine who signed off on what, who cleared payments, and who issued a completion certificate for a road that was nowhere near done.
Schemes like PMGSY were designed to connect the unconnected — to bring the last village into the mainstream. When that money is siphoned and that promise is broken, it’s not just a financial crime. It’s a theft of hope. The ACB’s probe will determine whether accountability finally catches up with the people who let Changlang down.
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