Imphal,August 2 UNA :The long awaited road of Kasom Khullen work will be started by March 2013, under the project of North East State Road Development Investment Project (NESRDIP) which will be funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Ministry of DoNER.
This was informed by Ram Muivah, Principle secretary (works) in the sideline of the inspection of 47.10km stretch of Thoubal to Kasom Khullen.
The inspection of the road was led by Ram Muivah, Bindiya Rawat consultant ADB and the related officials. The route was approved by ADB since 2007/2008 and included in their map.
The 80 percent project cost will be funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the North East State Road Development Investment Project (NESRIP) under Ministry of DoNER will fund another 20 percent. The probable cost for the project is 277 crores for the tranche of 2 roads, Tupul to Bishnupur 50km and Thoubal to Kasom Khullen 47.10km, for the completion of the road will take around three years.
Mention may be made here that for a decades the public of Kassom Khullen has been appealing and carried out many forms of agitation for the black topping of the road and due to negligence of Government of Manipur over the Kasom Khullen road many public of the areas has suffers in many ways.
Robertson a social worker of the areas said that the state government never look back for the development of the road since it existing, accept time to time maintenance.
We all depend on road, its bring development for any village. If communication is good suffering to the public is also less, appealing to all concern for a full co-operation in the work of maintenance so that it can completed in given duration added Robertson.
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