Silchar, Jun 5 : Hundreds of residents of south Hailakandi cross about a dozen decrepit wooden bridges to work every day but the creaks of rotten wood have remain inaudible to the administration despite several complaints.
There are 14 bridges in the 70-km stretch between Lala town in Hailakandi and Bairabi on the Assam-Mizoram border.Of these 14 bridges that cut through National Highway 154, only two are concrete — the rest are of creaky wood.
The wooden bridge at Baldabaldi near Jamirabazar, for instance, collapsed two months ago, but all the government did was build a bamboo sub-way to “help residents”.
The crash snapped road link with Mizoram via Bairabi.
From Baldabaldi to Bairabi, around 35,000 people are cut off from the rest of the country.
Residents met excise and border areas development minister Gautam Roy recently and sought his intervention to get the bridge repaired.
Roy has asked the National Highway Division of State PWD in Silchar to take up the matter urgently.
Telegraph India
There are 14 bridges in the 70-km stretch between Lala town in Hailakandi and Bairabi on the Assam-Mizoram border.Of these 14 bridges that cut through National Highway 154, only two are concrete — the rest are of creaky wood.
The wooden bridge at Baldabaldi near Jamirabazar, for instance, collapsed two months ago, but all the government did was build a bamboo sub-way to “help residents”.
The crash snapped road link with Mizoram via Bairabi.
From Baldabaldi to Bairabi, around 35,000 people are cut off from the rest of the country.
Residents met excise and border areas development minister Gautam Roy recently and sought his intervention to get the bridge repaired.
Roy has asked the National Highway Division of State PWD in Silchar to take up the matter urgently.
Telegraph India
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