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People at work along the Changtongya-Longleng road on Saturday.[/caption]
Dimapur, August 6 (EMN): Citizens of Akhoya village in Mokokchung district are informed to have voluntarily repaired a portion of a national highway between Changtongya and Longleng district in Nagaland.
“In seeing the suffering of the road users and heavy economic loss done to vehicles passing through the road owing to the road condition, the Akhoya citizens took a voluntary initiative by organising a mass social work today and repaired the first seven kilometres of the road that falls under Akhoya geographical jurisdiction,” updates from Tir Yimyim said on Sunday.
The organisers of the social work, the Akhoya Senso Mungdang, engaged two excavators and five dumpers with hundreds of volunteers for the task, the updates informed.
It was informed that Akhoya Senso Mungdang celebrated its golden jubilee on Friday and the social work was organized in commemoration of the jubilee.
While the voluntary effort of the public was appreciated, the updates said, it was ‘very disappointing to have come to know that instead of maintaining the road, some of the PWD (NH) officials were caught red handed by public who were transporting the hume pipe kept for the road illegally.’
"Almost all the construction materials and parts of machineries kept for the road construction were stolen and disappeared and always suspected and blamed the innocent villagers," said village council members of Akhoya, the updates said.
‘Another disappointment sight for the people was the weeds outgrown the road from both sides with no visible sign of PWD (NH) labour force,’ it stated.
According to the handout, work on the two-lane road between Changtongya and Longleng was given to M/S. Gayatri and Maytas company.
‘However they have abruptly abandoned the construction work with a number of excuses. "Now the public are the victims of excuses thoughtlessly expressed by the construction company as well as the state government time and again,”’ the village council members were quoted by Tir Yimyim as having said.
They have also expressed apprehension that a bridge at Lasong River located at 6th km of the national highway ‘was on the verge of collapse.’
