IMPHAL, Nov 9 NNN: The road repairing work being carried out by Border Road Organisation (BRO) along National Highway-37 (Imphal-Jiribam road) would be completed by December 2013, assured Lieutenant General S Ravi Shankar, PVSM, VSM, the Director General Border Roads (DGBR) on Friday.
Shankar visited the headquarters of 25 BRTF at Lamphelpat in Imphal on his way to Aizwal. He was received at the Imphal Airport by Brigadier Arun Joshi, Chief Engineer (Project) Sewak. During his brief stopover at Imphal, the DGBR reviewed various road development works, met all ranks of 25 BRTF and had an informal interaction with the media.
During the interaction, he said that he was certain the road development work being carried out along Imphal-Jiribam road would be finished by December next year. The Lieutenant General also explained that the because of frequent rain and scarce working seasons the development work on the road has been dog-tired.
Non-availability of sufficient sand and stones are also important factors contributing in the delay of the development work adding that buying stone from private owned quarries consumes more money and time as well. He also informed that whenever there is requirement of sand the BRTF is buying it from Nagaland.
Shankar further noted almost 70 percent of the repairing work is quite necessary to finish prior to black topping and that the road should also be completely dry for the same purpose. He said around 700 different vehicles ply on this road every day and this also disrupts the work.
Informing that 750 labourers are presently engaging along the road, he said routine inspection on the repairing work is being conducted by a monitoring committee of BRO every two months. The road development work is constantly under progress, he added.
He added the 25 BRTF is also constructing the 10 km long fence along Indo-Myanmar border of which 40 percent work has already been completed and target has been set to complete the border fence within December 2014. He also informed that the rehabilitation work being carried out between 125 km and 185 km Churachandpur-Tipaimukh road is under progress.
Shankar further brought out that the work on Singhat-Sinzawl-Tuivai road will start very shortly as it has been included in the execution stage after persistent efforts by the BRO.
Talking about Indo-Myanmar Friendship road, he informed that the BRO has already completed the 16- km Tamu-Kyigone-Kalewa road of which the 132 km stretch of Tamu-Kyigone-Kalemyo has already been handed over to Myanmar PWD and the resurfacing work on balance 26 km is under progress and is planned to be completed during this financial year.
During the interaction he also briefed about the important works being carried out by BRO in Nagaland of which the strengthening of 30 km on National Highway-29 is under progress. The work on Jotsoma Bye Pass is under progress of which 40 percent work has already been completed.
He also informed that the double laning of Kohima-Jessami road has also been approved by the Ministry and the estimate of first 17 km is under preparation.
Shankar brought out that a total of 200 km road will be resurfaced in the current Financial Year in both the states of Nagaland and Manipur.
The DGBR was very appreciative about the important works being carried out by Project Sewak in Manipur, Nagaland and Myanmar and expressed his satisfaction that all works are progressing as envisaged. The DGBR after his brief stay at Imphal left in the afternoon.
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