Shillong, May 10: The state government has decided to upgrade the two-lane Umiam-Malidor road to four-lane.
Deputy Chief Minister in-charge PWD (rods) Prestone Tynsong chaired a meeting in this regard on Friday.
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He told reporters that the survey of the alignment for upgradation of Umiam- Malidor road is in its final stage.
Tynsong said the length of the road along the National Highway-6 is more or less 150 to 160 kilometers.
The plan is to upgrade two-lane road from the flyover at Umiam in Ri Bhoi district up to the border of Assam at Malidor in East Jaintia Hills district.
“We had a consultation and review of the survey of the road with the concerned departments and officials of NHIDCL, which will implement the road project,” he said.
Tynsong wanted the deputy commissioners of East Jaintia Hills and West Jaintia Hills to constitute a dedicated committee for implementation of the important project.
The committee will have members from all concerned departments and representatives of NHIDCL.
“East Khasi HIlls and Ri Bhoi District have already constituted a committee and now I have instructed West Jaintia Hills and East Jaintia Hills DCs to constitute similar committee for this project, which is very important for the state of Meghalaya,” he said.
The project is huge as it goes up to Silchar and will cost around Rs 20,000 or 22,000 crore.
The project has five packages in Meghalaya and the survey of the alignment is in the final stage.
“Survey for package I, II and III is more or less in the final stage,” he said while adding that the proposal was also to construct about 3 tunnels along this road.
Tynsong said the process of land acquisition will also start very soon. “Today’s meeting was also to ensure that the issues related to land are resolved by the dedicated district committees”.
“That is why I told East and West Jaintia Hills deputy commissioners to start constituting a committee involving all be it revenue, PWD (Road), forest department, agriculture etc -all department concerned in the district level , they will have to be members in that committee and they will resolve the issue one by one,” he said.
