Imphal Feb 18 UNA : Construction of the Jiribam-Tupul railway construction in Manipur\u2019s Tamenglong district is disturbed .
\nIts been a week or so that the construction work commenced after a halt caused by the All Tribal Students\u2019 Union, Manipur (ATSUM. It had imposed a ban on the implementation of all National Projects in hill areas of Manipur, armed militants has also threatened officials and labourers of the company engaging in the construction of dire consequences in connection with extortion demand said official source.
\nThe official source said that some armed militants suspected to be cadres of Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) on last February 13 afternoons barged into the campus of the ECIEC Limited located near Thingou village, about 9 km north of Nungba police station and demanded money from the officials and labourers, said a police source on Monday.
\nWhen the officials and labourers failed to meet the monetary demand, the armed militants vain their angers and resorted to firing one round of bullet hitting at the spoke of a tipper parking at the campus threatening the officials and labourers of dire consequences.
\nAfter then, the armed militants left the place into nearby forest, the police said.
\nThis incident was not the first case of threatening the officials and labourers engaged in the construction of Jiribam-Tupul railway line since the ground work of the railway line commenced after Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone in November 2004.
\nThe total estimated cost of the project was Rs 3,250 crore and the ground work of the project which there should have 34 tunnels commenced from 2005. Out of the total 34 tunnels so far construction of four has been completed.
\nFirst, the Northern Frontier construction organization targeted to complete the track laying work up to Tupul from Jiribam by 2014.<\/p>\n\n