Ralph Marston once quoted, “See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective and unstoppable determination”. The same has been proven by the villagers of Manipur’s Tousem sub-division in Tamenglong district under the leadership of Armstrong Pame, the native and the sub-divisional magistrate of Tamenglong. This young Naga IAS officer has initiated a project of building a 100 km road in the remotest area of this village without the help of government funding. The amount of Rs. 101 Cr was sanctioned by the center in 1982 but the project never took off due to unknown reasons, despite after several follow ups and promises. But as it is said, necessity is the mother of invention. There was an outbreak of tropical diseases in the area and in the absence of motorable roads the patients could not reach the hospitals and lost their lives. Most of the doctors were also not ready to visit the place to treat the patients. In such a situation, Armstrong Pame reached out in his friend circle and arranged the doctors who camped themselves in the village to treat more than 500 patients.

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