Mizoram traffic curb lifted: Over 800 vehicles released
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Aizawl: State police personnel, regulating vehicular traffic along the worst stretches of NH-306 and 06, linking Mizoram with Assam, have released 826 goods-laden vehicles on Saturday night till 8am on Sunday with only 36 vehicles being left stranded, officials said, reports HC Vanlalruata.
The officials said those released from the Kawnpui area in Kolasib district bordering Assam towards Aizawl included 25 trucks, carrying cooking gas cylinders and 62 trucks and tankers. They said 223 trucks proceeding towards Assam were also released from Sairang and Khamrang area.
Suspension of operation by the Aizawl-based Joint Committee of the Commercial Vehicles was called off at 4pm on Saturday resulting in more vehicles being released.
Earlier, the state govt said repairs on the worst-hit stretch of the highway, between Kawnpui and Sairang, were almost completed on Thursday. This stretch, roughly 100 metres long, had been a major bottleneck. By 2.00pm Thursday, boulders had been placed in 80 per cent of the stretch, and the remaining work is expected to wrap up by evening. A team of heavy machinery, including two excavators, a vibratory roller, and a grader, was put to work to fix the damage.
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Joint committee of commercial vehicles, however, has expressed doubts about the govt claims that the worst stretches along the highways have been repaired during the suspension of operation by the truckers and the sections are now fit for all the vehicles to ply along the highways.
The joint committee of commercial vehicles, comprising 14 associations of truckers, said they are still sceptical that the conditions of the worst sections have been fully repaired, expressing doubts about the quality of boulders used in some sections.
They also urged the govt to construct reliable drains along the roads to ensure durability as well as to use hard rocks, not mixed with soft boulders and mud to fill potholes.
Besides fuel scarcity, the prolonged repair period of the Aizawl-Silchar highway hit the economy of the state hard as acute scarcity of essential items, including fuel, rice and other commodities like liquid milk, caused hardships to the common people while construction activities also almost came to a standstill due to unavailability of construction materials specially cement and steel rods.
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