Two weeks after a cloudburst tore through Keyi Panyor district, the Centre finally came to see the damage for itself — and the ground reality left little room for optimism.
Delhi Takes Note of the Destruction
An Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT), led by Ministry of Home Affairs Joint Secretary Nishtha Tiwari, arrived in Keyi Panyor on July 8 to assess the scale of devastation caused by the June 24 disaster. Arunachal Pradesh Disaster Management Secretary Dani Salu accompanied the delegation throughout the visit. The team didn’t just sit through briefings in air-conditioned rooms. They drove in from Itanagar by road, stopping at landslide-hit stretches and broken road corridors that have choked off connectivity to some of the worst-affected pockets of the district.
Ground Zero: Posa Colony and Possa Village
The delegation made its way to the Posa NEEPCO Colony and Possa village — two areas that bore the worst of the June 24 disaster. What the cloudburst triggered wasn’t just flooding. It brought flash floods and landslides crashing in together, killing three people and leaving two others still missing. Residential houses, government buildings, the NEEPCO colony itself, and critical public infrastructure were swept away or damaged beyond immediate use. Seeing it in person is a different thing altogether from reading damage reports on paper.
The Review That Followed
After the field inspection, the central team sat down for a formal review meeting with Keyi Panyor Deputy Commissioner Shweta Nagarkoti and Superintendent of Police Angad Mehta, along with public representatives from the area. The DC didn’t hold back. She laid out the full picture — damaged roads, crumbling public infrastructure, a battered agriculture sector, and the district’s immediate needs for relief, rehabilitation and long-term reconstruction. It was a conversation that needed to happen much sooner, but at least it’s happening now.
What Comes Next
The IMCT’s field visit is not just a formality. Officials confirmed that the team’s assessment report will go directly to the Ministry of Home Affairs, which will then decide how much additional central financial assistance Arunachal Pradesh receives for its post-disaster recovery efforts. That decision carries enormous weight for the thousands of people in Keyi Panyor still waiting for their lives to return to some version of normal.
The floods came in a matter of hours. Rebuilding will take months, maybe years. For the people of Keyi Panyor, the only thing that matters now is whether this visit translates into real money, real action, and real results on the ground — not just another report filed and forgotten.
— Naitik Abotani TV
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