Highway improvement work from next month: Biswajit

By A Staff Reporter

IMPHAL | Aug 9

Works minister Thongam Biswajit Singh has assured that the national highways in the state will be improved and made in a never seen avatar in the state. He gave this assurance while talking to reporters on the sideline of 19 th freshers meet of Mount Everest College, Senapati today.

He said upgradation of the highways will start from next month.

The minister said that work order is out and the construction will start from September when the weather is work-friendly. It will be on both national highways which connects Imphal-Jiribam and Imphal-Dimapur.

Contractors of Bhartia Infra Projects Limited will start work in September and try to complete it in December. The works will be implemented on EPC (Engineering Procurement and Construction) mode, he added.

As the minister of works, he urged civil organisations and the local public to bear the brunt of bad road condition for a little longer so that the bad weather also clears out and so that certain norms in the process of maintaining a national highway will be properly furnished.

He also said that the issue of compensation on Imphal–Jiribam road will be sorted out by incorporating with National Highways Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHICDL) so that the on-going work is not disturbed by any civil organisation.

The annual fresher’s meet of the college was observed at the college chapel under the theme “Beautifully created”.

Addressing the gathering Biswajit urged the youths to shoulder the responsibility in burying the hatchet and mistrust between two brotherhoods of hills and the valleys. He also urged the people to forgive and forget past mistakes.

He encouraged the students to excel in studies and co-curricular activities.

The minister assured that he would accomplish the terms submitted by the college and the Taphou-Phiami village memorandum. It includes construction of road with drainage in the MEC road, to create a separate transformer for Senapati and to build a new market shed according to the customary model after consulting with the officials.

The function was also attended by the deputy commissioner of Senapati district, Athem Muivah, college president and former MLA Alexander Pao and NPF Senapati president Soni Mathew among others.

MEC has a total strength of around 2,500 students and offers undergraduate and graduate courses. The undergraduate course has three streams, arts, science and commerce.