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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
According to the student body`\u2122s 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.`\u009d<\/p>\n
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.`\u009d<\/p>\n
`Both the dry and rainy seasons equally affect the school children.`\u009d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The minimal maintenance of the highway has also not been upto the mark, he said.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n\n