IMPHAL, Aug 20 NNN: Altogether 750 goods laden trucks, which had been stranded at Jiribam’s Kambirol along National Highway-37 for days owing to landslide, arrived in Imphal on Tuesday.
Escorted trucks will get on the Imphal-Jiribam route again on August 22 for ferrying essential commodities, official sources said. The loaded trucks that began to arrive here since early morning brought in LPG gas, petrol, diesel and medical items.
The stranded vehicles reached the state capital after the Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) repaired the Kambirol section of the highway damaged by landslide. BRTF are now tirelessly taking up repairing works on several parts of the route to ensure free flow of traffic.
Since Saturday evening, over 750 Imphal bound loaded goods trucks got stranded at Kambiron area along National Highway 37 due to a landslide.
Over 900 loaded goods trucks had left Jiribam in the Manipur-Assam border township for Imphal on August 16 but over 750 trucks got stranded at Kambiron of Nungba subdivision in Tamenglong district while the rest had crossed the area before the landslide had occurred on Saturday.
Kambiron is some 75 km away from Jiribam towards Imphal.Meanwhile, Manipur continues to face fuel scarcity problem. Since July 8, supplies of commodities to Manipur have been disrupted on intervals due to natural calamities and bandhs.
After the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) bandh of July 8-10, massive landslide had occurred along National Highway-2 near Kohima on July 12 which had disrupted the supply line for several weeks followed by numerous bandhs.
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