Tiddim road to be repaired ahead of Sangai Festival

Imphal, Nov 6: Potholes on Tiddim road will be repaired by November 15, ahead of the upcoming Manipur Sangai Festival 2017, said Chief Engineer of National Highway and Buildings, PWD, Government of Manipur.
N Noren Singh, Chief Engineer of National Highway and Buildings, PWD, announced the repairing of the Tiddim road will be completed ahead of the Manipur Sangai Festival during a media interaction at his office chamber of Public Works Department (PWD), today.
N Noren Singh said that the repairing works of the Tiddim road were put to halt due to the heavy rains and bad weather conditions in the state but his department is trying their best to fill up the potholes and repair the condition of roads in-order to provide good roads for the public conveniences.
N Noren Singh also said that recently some local dailies had published that there are more than 20 potholes on the road stretch of Imphal to Keibul Lamjao at such a crucial hour which is very unfortunate while his department is putting their sincere and best effort to fill up all the potholes and repair the road stretch of Tiddim road.
Such demotivating information should not be published by the local dailies which can tarnish the image of the engineers in front of the public when they putting their best effort to complete the pending works left behind due to the bad weather condition ahead of the festival, Noren urged.
N Noren Singh further said that no appreciative information were shared to the local dailies when the PWD Engineers work day and night during the landslide occurred along the Imphal-Mao road inorder to assured essential commodities and items could reach on time.
N Noren Singh assured to repair the potholes and the road condition of Imphal-Mao and Imphal-Moreh roads within the next two to three months.
Efforts are on to convert the old Lokchao Bridge which is still in existence since World War 2 into an Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) Bridge, Noren asserts.