{"id":142254,"date":"2014-12-13T00:26:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T00:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2014\/12\/13\/hcba-blames-authority-contractors-for-road-conditions\/"},"modified":"2014-12-13T00:26:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T00:26:42","slug":"hcba-blames-authority-contractors-for-road-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2014\/12\/13\/hcba-blames-authority-contractors-for-road-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"HCBA blames authority, contractors for road conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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High Court Bar Association (HCBA), Kohima has blamed authorities manning the roads and the contractors for the deplorable condition of roads in the state particularly National Highway (NH) 29.<\/div>\n
In a statement, HCBA president Taka Masa and general secretary A. Zhimomi said the association held a general body meeting in August 2014 and deliberated on the condition of the roads in the state. In the meeting, the participants agreed that there was a need to take remedial actions. <\/div>\n
Following this, a representation was submitted to the appropriate authorities and on September 3, 2014, a reply was received from project Sewak.<\/div>\n
HCBA said the state should also do more for providing quality road connectivity as metalled roads have become virtually \u201cnon-existent\u201d and traversing the roads maintained by the state had become an excruciating experience. The association has also put on notice the responsible authority in the state and requested remedial action immediately.<\/div>\n
HCBA pointed out that over the years, the construction and maintenance of the roads in the state have been \u201ccosmetic.\u201d The association said that lack of quality control and deviation from specifications to enhance profits at the cost of the exchequer and the well being of the people invited both civil as well as criminal consequences. <\/div>\n
\u201cCulpability lies with the concerned authorities as well as the contractors awarded with the construction\/maintenance work. Such practices must stop\u201d, said HCBA. The bar said it desired authorities to take \u201cpro-active actions\u201d in public interest.
\nBRO cites reasons for poor road conditions<\/span><\/p>\n
Following a representation submitted by High Court Bar Association (HCBA), Kohima, Project Sewak Executive Engineer (EE), Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has listed reasons for the deplorable conditions of National Highway (NH)-29.<\/div>\n
In the reply dated on September 3, 2014, EE (civ), SO- 2 (Wks) Remendu Sarma said all the materials used for construction have been procured from reputed contractors and the bitumen from oil companies and the standards of construction have been uniform all over the entire sector as per laid down norms and specifications. However, certain activities along the roads needed to be looked into and these included quarrying along the road; excavation of bed materials from the streams and nullahs which led to blockages of culverts during monsoon; debris spill over on to the road surface; rampant free cutting and terracing of uphill slopes for agriculture or for construction related activities; chocking of drains with garbage in built up areas; washing of vehicles on the road especially at locations where road side hotels and eating places existed.<\/div>\n
The project Sewak engineer also said there was improper or inadequate surface drainage system along the road. Measures taken up by the task force include construction of lined drains in the town areas of Zubza, Kohima and Zakhama; construction of iron grill trap drains on majority of approach roads linking from the uphill side to the highway and regular interaction with civil administration, local population for ensuring that drains were not blocked with garbage\/debris.<\/div>\n
On the indiscriminate excavation of land along the highway, the project sewak engineer however said this was not the major factor responsible for causing innumerable damages to the road surface. He said it was on record that at least one to two locations per week were being excavated upon, astride the highway and time and again the locations with photographs had been intimated to the civil administration. Unfortunately, no action has been initiated by the administration to curb the practice, the engineer rued. He said this activity was on the increase each day as the portion of the highway for which the land compensation for four-laning has been received was being now exploited by the landowners for quarry and tree cutting activities.<\/div>\n
On sinking areas, project sewak engineer said majority of the issues were due to \u201cmanmade reasons\u201d and not due to geographical attributes. \u201cMassive excavations astride the highway and terraced paddy fields on both uphill and downhill slopes are causing the road surface to sink\u201d, said the engineer. <\/div>\n
He also said there was lack of proper strategy for tackling the problems. It has also been suggested involvement of expertise of CRRI for investigation and recommendations for preventing sinking of a few critical stretches. <\/div>\n
The other measures suggested include slope stabilization; innovative use of new technologies and involvement of local population and civil administration.<\/div>\n
With awareness and social responsibility, 75 to 80% of the damages could be easily controlled, the engineer said. He opined quarry, excavation, approach roads, drainages etc have to be strictly regulated otherwise any methodology\/strategy adopted to minimize damages might not hold good in the long run.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

High Court Bar Association (HCBA), Kohima has blamed authorities manning the roads and the contractors for the deplorable condition of roads in the state particularly National Highway (NH) 29. In a statement, HCBA president Taka Masa and general secretary A. Zhimomi said the association held a general body meeting in August 2014 and deliberated on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}