It seems the soil at Lamphel areas floats like the ship in the sea. The houses and office buildings constructed at Lamphel and its surrounding areas get sunk slowly and slowly. Large number of old buildings near DC office Lamphelpat lay under water. The buildings look too short as half of its height had gone inside the earth. There is no crack in the wall. The roof is in good condition. But the only problem is the ground floor that remains stuck inside the earth. In future the architects when they design office buildings or quarters for employees must study the nature of the soil. They must raise the level of the veranda to enable the buildings last half a century. The level of the roads can be raised every year by doing WBM work. Buildings and bridges are different; once they have been constructed it is finished. It cannot be pulled up or expanded. There is a bridge at Uripok connecting with Sagolband at Khoisnam Leikai, which has foot path on both sides of the bridge. The foot path is so wide that there is no space for two vehicles coming from opposite direction to negotiate. There is space for only one vehicle. Our engineers are advised to take maximum care to ensure that buildings and bridges are not constructed in a haphazard manner. Architectural design must be interrelated with the condition of the soil. The kind of buildings or bridges, which will last only four or five years, must not come up. Construction of such buildings and bridges is wastage of money. Instead of constructing small quarters here and there the Government must also think cloistering all these employees in multi-storeyed building. That will save space, which can be used in taking up other development programmes. Lamphel areas, Takyelpat, Akampat have seen mushrooming of tiny houses. All these buildings can be clubbed together and the space available after eviction of the small buildings can be used for preservation of water. That will go a long way in the protection of ecology of the areas. Clean airs swept earlier at Lamphel areas now smelly and stinky wind blow. So none think of going to lamphel for inhaling better air. In Thailand there is Oxygen Park. Such park can be preserved at Lamphel areas by evicting useless buildings. Manipur Government can find enough fund for construction of multi-crore capitol project at Chingmeirong. It will be able to trace fund for development of park also. The park thus developed can be used as tourist spots. The people living in the state capital have started feeling suffocation as almost 70 percent of the entire population live in Imphal areas. Something needs to be done to give them a new lease of life.
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