Trucks start taking Kedima bypass road
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, June 04 2025: Trucks stranded in Senapati and Mao areas due to the massive landslide along National Highway-2 (Imphal-Dima-pur) road at Phesama in Nagaland have started moving towards Dimapur side since Wednesday evening after renovation of a bypass road by Manipur Drivers' Association (MDA) and its allied transporters' associations and unions.

However, more than 1,000 trucks loaded with essential items bound for Manipur remained stranded till late Wednesday due to the June 1 landslide in between Phesama and Kisama along NH-2.To ease the fear of scarcity of essential items in Manipur due to the landslide, MDA in coordination with its allied transporters' associations and unions namely, Senapati District Truck Owners' Association, Senapati District Truck Drivers' Union and Manipur Gorkha Motor Workers' Welfare Union carried out renovation work of the 25 km long bypass road from Kedima in Nagaland to Mao and Tadubi in Manipur on Wednesday morning.

A team equipped with excavator (JCB), three dumper trucks, two recovery vans and three ambulances was despatched from Sekmai early Wednesday morning to carry out renovation work of Kedima bypass road.

The team mended pot-holes and other dangerous locations along the bypass road, allowing stranded trucks from Mao and Senapati to move towards Dimapur through the road on Wednesday afternoon with some trucks even reaching Dimapur by evening.

Trucks bound for Manipur stranded on the other side of the affected stretch would start moving towards Mao from 7 am Thursday.

Meanwhile, MDA general secretary Kshetrimayum Sanjay informed media persons that the state often faces problem of scarcity of essential items and medicines due to landslide along Imphal-Dimapur and Imphal-Jiribam roads and the same threat looms large due to the landslide at Phesama.

Accordingly, MDA took up the initiative to renovate the Kedima bypass road to make it accessible for trucks so as to avert the problem of scarcity of essential and medical items in the state.

He contended that authorities concerned rarely work in the interest of the people whenever landslides occur along the national highways.

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