SENAPATI, October 16: The Senapati District Students Association, SDSA the apex student body of the district has expressed grievances over the dilapidated condition of the NH 2 that stretches between Senapati to Mao and strongly urged the concerned department of the State government to improve the same.
It is reported that potholes keep increasing day by day due to the rain and lack of maintenance so much so that one side of the two-lane highway remains unused in most part of the stretch.
Leaders of the apex student body of the district said during their inspection tour, they found so many spots almost un-motorable along the stretch.
According to the student body`™s general secretary Shakpa Sebastian `The NH 2 being the main lifeline of the State has a number of schools and other important infrastructures built along the sides of the road.`
He said `not only the vehicles, the pathetic condition of the highway has been affecting even the pedestrian especially school going children who use the road to reach their respective schools.`
`Both the dry and rainy seasons equally affect the school children.`
He also added that lack of bitumen which has been totally worn off made the highway too dusty during the dry season and too muddy during the rainy season.
The minimal maintenance of the highway has also not been upto the mark, he said.
The SDSA strongly appeals to the concerned department to take serious action on the matter at the earliest. If not any form of democratic agitation will be launched, it said