Bodies fume over narrow width of IKT road
Source: Chronicle News Service
Tamenglong, April 03 2022:
Several Tamenglong-based organisations have asked authorities of Externally Aided Projects (EAP) Public Works Department to provide sufficient land area for the construction of full- sized high quality Imphal-Kangchup-Tamenglong (1KT) road.
In a joint memorandum, United Women Organisations, The Forerunner, Teachers' Association, and Society for Enhancing Tamenglong informed that on March 19 a joint team surveyed the ongoing IKT Road construction upon receiving complaints that the specified width of the road is not being adhered to.
During the inspection it came to light that the road being constructed is indeed very narrow.
"We cross checked with the on-site engineers of HCC and detected that the road portion between 100+300 and 103+020 Km do not have the required width", the memorandum pointed out, while informing that HCC expressed helplessness citing insufficient land provision, not even 8.5 metre required for maintaining the minimum 7 metres carpeted area.
They have been told that a row of 24 metres is to be maintained, it added: The joint memorandum urged the authority to look into the matter at the earliest.