ITANAGAR, Feb 8: Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein today gave a new timeline to complete the Package-A of 4-laning of National Highway-415 from Chandranagar to Banderdewa by March 2019. He said this in a meeting with M Riten Kumar Singh, Regional Officer, MoRT&H Itanagar, Bilatee Pertin, Commissioner (PWD), Toli Basar, Chief Engineer (Highway), Prince Dhawan, Deputy Commissioner (Capital Complex), Engineers of Capital Division (PWD & Highway) and representatives of M/S T K Engineering.               

Expressing dissatisfaction over the slow progress of works, Mein asked the contractor to expedite the works and increase the numbers of machineries and working hours. He asked them to work in night shift especially in the portion of Chandranagar to Raj Bhawan road as the area is congested with traffic during the day. He also instructed to construct the retaining wall in the Secretariat portion before the onset of monsoon and also to see that no major damages occur in landslide vulnerable areas in the new cutting in Itanagar township.           

Parliamentary Secretary (Highway) Techi Kaso, asked the district administration to shift the utility service lines of water pipeline, electric poles, telephone poles and OFC cables from the Right of Way (RoW) for the smooth construction of works and to take stringent action against the departmental officer who do not comply.    

The executing agency also sought for complete traffic diversion from Chandranagar to Raj Bhawan road during GSB/WBM and BT works from February 10 for next 30 days to which the Deputy Commissioner assured to look into.              

Deputy Chief Minister also held a high level meeting with the Parliamentary Secretary for PWD, Techi Kaso, Chief Secretary, Satya Gopal, M Riten Kumar Singh, RO MoRT&H, Itanagar, Bilatee Pertin, Commissioner (PWD), Toli Basar, Chief Engineer (Highway) and others to discuss the issue on Potin to Pangin Trans-Arunachal Highway this evening.

He said that the Potin to Pangin road is one of the important roads of the state as it serves as the lifeline for the people of five districts namely Lower Subansiri, Kamle, Upper Subansiri, West Siang and Siang.

Narrating the plight of the road, he said that the said portion of road is in deplorable condition as it remained unattended and unmaintained for the last four years causing hardships to the people due to which there is public outcry. He informed that the road has been handed over to MoRT&H by the State PWD long back in the year 2014 after the later assured its maintenance and widening. However, due to many issues including land compensation and others, the road widening and construction has been over delayed and could not be taken up by the MoRT&H in time.   

He asked the Regional Officer, MoRT&H Itanagar to carry out repair and maintenance of the said road from Potin to Pangin in urgency before the onset of the monsoon to which the RO readily agreed to convey the message to the Ministry and to carry out the repair and maintenance of the said road in patch wise manner. 

Chief Secretary, Satya Gopal said since the road has been handed over to the MoRT&H by the State PWD it is the former’s duty to maintain the road and asked the RO MoRT&H to give a time bound action plan for repair and maintenance of the said road before the onset of monsoon. He said the non-maintenance of the road is causing inconvenience to the people and hampering economic development of the region.  

 

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Kenter Joya Riba

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