Deputy Chief Minister in-charge PWD (Roads) Prestone Tynsong on Tuesday said direction has been issued to the department to immediately restore roads, which are damaged by rain-related calamities.
Speaking to reporters, Tynsong said, “I have instructed the department concerned, the commissioner & secretary, the secretary and all engineers to be alert and to be active and wherever any damages happen, we need to restore it at the earliest.”
On the recent landslide at Rngain area, the deputy chief minister said, “I have already instructed NHIDCL officials to be alert and 24×7 you have to also have a readymade functionaries and also machineries. Whenever a landslide takes place we have to remove it within hours’ time.”
He said with regards to the FIR filed earlier due to a similar incident which claimed at least two lives, the investigation is on and police are on the job to complete the investigation and submit the report to the government.
On the landslides at Sonapur tunnel along the NH-6, Tynsong however said as far as the national highway is concerned, it is not under the control of the state PWD.
“The Shillong-Dawki is handed over to NHIDCL and the Shillong-Guwahati-Jorabat and then upto Sonapur is being handled by NHAI. So these two organizations are being controlled by the Ministry of road transport and they are the ones who have to look after all this. But we are in touch with them and we have told them, please be proactive and make sure that the traffic movement does not hamper much. The long term plan is there. In-fact the experts from Delhi, IIT they keep coming, they do the detailed survey, the detailed research on how to go about it and they submit directly to the ministry of road transport,” he said.