Construction season has started which needs to be utilised properly. The dry spell which will last till February next year can be used in black topping roads and also in filling up pot holes. The dusts, which have engulfed the entire Imphal areas, are unbearable. Large number of young kids has fallen ill. Parents and guardians of the young kids are spending lots of money in providing medical treatment to the ailing children. A visit to a paediatrician’s house will make one realise the nature of ailment, which have affected small children. Doctors say the ailment is viral fever, which literally means air born disease. Infectitious air is sweeping everywhere. Clean atmosphere is vanishing. These dusty roads have spoilt our environment. Hence the call for giving a massive thrust to bettering condition of the roads in the crowded areas. Without a mask a two wheeler driver feels handicapped in driving the small vehicle. But Imphal is the face of the state. At least the face lift needs to be provided to the capital city. By controlling the dusts, which have engulfed every part of the capital city a change will be seen. The roads, which are covered by dusts, are the ones passing through Lamphel areas and Sagolband. The thought of moving in these areas makes one flabbergasted. Precious water is used in controlling the dust. This defies the policy of water harvesting. At some areas road construction programme was taken up but it was abandoned mid way. Who are these contractors, who cannot even construct a road properly? They may say the fund flow from the concerned department to work done is irregular. This questions the methodology of granting work order and the manner with which a work programme is framed. Do not take up any construction programme if there is no fund for such work. Now an engineering department is in disarray. Engineers cannot sit at the office, simply for the reason that they cannot clear the bills of the work done by the contractors. Penniless contractors are on the lookout for the engineers, who deal directly with the construction programme. Ningol chakkouba festival is approaching and just on the eve of the festival a small amount or a fraction of the total cost is always released. The poor contractors expecting that little bit of benefit will come to them have started looking for the engineer to know whether they will get some money? Engineers, who are clueless about the paying capacity of the Government for that matter the concerned department have scurried for cover by fleeing to either friends or relatives house. These engineers say boldly funds for the works done had been released by the centre. This means there is a missing link between what is being done and what is being included in the work programme. If not for that reason why should one not get paid for the work done? Show sympathetic treatment to the educated unemployed youths, who took up contract work as the means for survival. If the pending bills are cleared why not they will surely come out and repair the dusty roads. Travelling on the dusty roads is suffocating. You are not alien you too might be suffocating.
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