National highway road connecting Imphal and Moreh is dangerously narrow. Driving along this road is not safe. Vehicles drive in full speed as long distance is to be covered. There is no space for swerving the vehicle. Drivers show the tendency to overtake the vehicles ahead. Two wheelers are not safe on this road because the roadside is depressed by around one foot. The two wheelers as they attempt to allow the fast moving four wheelers move ahead of them the vehicles skid on the road. Something needs to be done immediately to widen the road from Kakwa to Thoubal where large number of vehicles ply. Top executive of the state must pay immediate attention and take steps for expansion of the national highway. There is a plan for introduction of Imphal Mandalay bus service as a part of strengthening the relation between India and Myanmar. Which means buses from Myanmar side too will be coming to Imphal. Manipur roads are not presentable to the foreigners. After all roads are the faces of the state. These tiny roads are not worthy of showing. Top priority must be given in upgrading the condition of all national highway particularly Moreh Imphal road. In the past 10 years the number of vehicles in the state had increased manifold. This is indicated by the frequent occurrence of traffic jam, which has happened in town areas. Even in the rural areas traffic jam has occurred. Why it happens? The question is being asked though we know the answer. The state Government’s inability to widen the existing roads has attributed to making traffic congestion. Our Government must know that the state has no means to connect with the outside world except by road. This means that road must receive top priority. If the Government do not have fund for expansion of the road mentioned above it should find some fund for raising the depressed roadside, so that two wheeler drivers will not find handicap in driving on the national highway connecting Moreh and Imphal. The roadside dwellers also must understand the problems facing the vehicle drivers on this road so they should not stand near the road. There is likelihood of vehicles knocking them down while negotiating the narrow road. It happens at Lilong area almost all the people come out from home and stand near the road. What they are doing on the roadside. This question is raised by vehicle drivers. At some areas near Khumbong on the NH 37 connecting Imphal and Jirbam local people sit on the roadside unmindful of the fast moving running just behind them? Are they not afraid of dying? Then youngsters in town areas move stretching horizontally. They almost block the fast moving vehicles. They wait for the vehicles to give blaring sound and move sideways in the same manner cows running away when they are beaten with stick. Such unruly youngsters need to be thrashed because they have no respect for the fast moving vehicle. But the duty of the Government is to focus on the area where there is problem. All these national highway roads have become a problem, they need immediate attention.
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