Thoubal project will be completed by December this year: N Biren
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, June 20 2011:
IFCD minister, N Biren, who inspected the progress work of the Thoubal multipurpose project today, said that the project will be completed by December this year, three months earlier then the targeted period.
The project will be completed by December and inaugurated to be handed over to the public, said the minister in an interaction with reporters after he inspected the work progress of the project which is being taken up on a war-footing to meet the targeted period.
The Minister expressed satisfied with the progress work of the earth dam and power components of the project the construction of which started in 1980.After a long abandonment, the construction resumed with the Congress led SPF government ruling the state, he added.
Ninety percent of the construction has been completed, Biren said, asserting that 76% of the installation of the spillway of the power component and 91.50% of the right and left canals, having a total length of 57.117 km together have been completed while the work of the barrage component have almost been completed.
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The total cost of the project as per the latest revision was ' 982 crore.
If no disturbances come in the way, the project would be completed before the imposition of the Election Model Code of Conduct of the state Assembly which is expected by the early part of the next year 2012, said Biren.
The CM is also giving special attention to the project, he said.
The project would have been completed much earlier then the targeted period, March 2012, but it was delayed due to a prolonged three month economic blockade imposed on both NH 39 and 53 last year coupled with disturbances like killing of labourers by miscreants, he maintained.
Without the disturbances, the project might have been completed by the current month June or July, he added.