Roads connectivity to Kohima cut off since yesterday

Kohima, July 5 (UNI): The town of Kohima and the state of Manipur has been cut off by road since yesterday following a massive landslide on the National Highway 29, the lifeline of Nagaland and Manipur, where rows of hundreds of vehicles carrying essential commodities, have been stranded on the roadside since yesterday.

Official sources said that a stretch of road subsidence on National Highway-29, between Kohima-Dimapur, near the KMC old dumping site, where a stretch of about 70 metres sank about eight to nine feet down has affected vehicular movement since the early hours of yesterday.

However, the district authorities and the police have diverted the traffic of smaller vehicles via Jotsoma by-pass road. But the heavily loaded trucks and oil tankers, carrying essential commodities, are still stranded on the NH-29. The PWD and other concerned Departments are working at the site of landslide and sufficient workforce and machinery have been deployed to restore the road.

After working for two days till this evening, the road was yet to restore, but Departmental officials are still hopeful that the road will be restored by tomorrow morning.