Gracy Tripathy & Vikramaditya
Port Blair, Feb 02: The NHIDCL has assured to complete the road repair works and the also the task of laying second layer of 40 mm over the first layer by 25 February 2021.
Talking to Andaman Sheekha, a senior officer of NHIDLC said that the NHIDCL was not given permission to construct proper road inside the Jarawa Tribal Reserve and hence they are laying only a 40 mm of surface over the existing road surface.
“We had already laid one layer earlier and now the work for the second layer of road along with remaining road works on some patches will be complete by 25 February,” the NHIDCL officer added.
He also mentioned that the NHIDCL has initiated works for construction of two minor bridges inside the Jarawa Reserve area, which will be completed by April or May 2021. As per sources in the place of two bailey bridges, NHIDCL will construct two concrete bridges.
In 2016 and 2017, Islanders had seen that said stretch of road was in most horrible shape, later the NHIDCL up-graded the road stretch by laying a 40 mm road surface over the old road surface.
Sadly the newly upgraded stretch has now developed thousands of potholes and in many parts, the top road surface has gone missing.
Although NHIDCL has now assured to complete the road work by 25 February 2021 but looking at the area of work and work speed of NHIDCL, it appears almost impossible to complete the task by target date.
