National Highway 2 landslide: Traffic resumes on Imphal-Mao highway

Our Correspondent
Imphal, Oct. 28 (EMN): After four days of road repair works, normal traffic along Imphal-Mao sector of the National Highway 2 in Manipur’s Senapati district was restored on Wednesday morning, reports from Senapati said.

The road construction works at Khongnem Thana village, 72 km north of Imphal under Senapati district, was initiated by a construction agency without delay after the completion of necessary formalities with the affected village authority and concerned officials.

The new road is being built on the sunken portion of the highway, which is the main supply route of Manipur. The state PWD officials had informed that complete restoration of the highway would take some time.

On October 23 evening, the Imphal-Mao sector of the highway was completely cut off due to a massive landslide measuring about 50 metre at Khongnem Thana following days of incessant rains.

Since then, more than hundred Imphal-bound goods trucks remained stranded along the highway even though smaller vehicles could take other routes to reach Imphal.