Geo-textile tech for PMGSY works
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 18 2016:
The State
Level Coordination Committee
headed by the Chief Secretary
as Chairman held a meeting
yesterday and decided to
introduce geo-textile
technology while constructing
four roads under PMGSY with
the Manipur State Rural Roads
Development Agency
(MSRRDA) as the
implementing agency.
Two of the four roads on
which geo-textile technology
would be employed are located n Thoubal district while the other two are located in Imphal East
district.
Officials of Works Department, Forest Department, Min-
istry of Textiles and MSRRDA were present at the meeting,
conveyed an official source.
Hiyanglam-Hiranmei road and Thounaojam-
Elangkhangpokpi road are the two roads in Thoubal district
where geo-textile technology would be introduced.
The same
technology would be applied while constructing/repairing two
roads from Khongman Zone I to Imphal-Moreh highway.
The meeting also agreed to rope in Indian Jute Industries
Research Association to carry out Techno-Economic Viability
Study of 31 roads which would be constructed under PMGSY
and a number of projects which would be taken up under six
divisions of Forest Department.
As agreed at the meeting, Techno-Economic Viability Study
for Mao-Maram section of Imphal-Dimapur highway, six
PMGSY projects, Kangpokpi-Tamei road, Phungyar water
supply scheme and expansion of the Imphal-Dimapur high-
way sections which are under the State PMGSY into four
lanes would be done by the Ahmadabad Textile Industries
Research Association, conveyed the source.