Staff Reporter

Shillong, April 6: The Hynñiewtrep Integrated Territorial Organization (HITO) Mawlai circle has demanded that the state government puts on hold the construction of the PWD road stretch from Mawlai Mawroh near the Meghalaya Police Public School up to Mawroh PHC.

This demand came after a video went viral on social media showing the upper layer of the road being detached from the surface.

The HITO Mawlai Circle led by its president Wansuklang Lawriniang went for an on-site inspection and found out that a stretch of freshly laid road near Meghalaya Police Public School up to Mawroh PHC was not renovated according to the norms of PWD.

Speaking to media persons Lawriniang said that the HITO Mawlai circle had taken cognizance of the issue not just because of poor quality of work but it is also because the contractor does not have a work order on the project and also there is no estimate to carry out the work.

He alleged that there is an issue of corruption involved in the matter because, after inspection of the ongoing work, it was found that the contractor had used poor quality of materials and had not followed the norms of the PWD.

“With this poor quality of implementing the work, we can say it involves corruption since the contractor does not have a work order on the project nor the estimates” alleged Lawriniang.

In this regard, the HITO urged the government and the PWD (Roads) department to look into the matter and to stop the work immediately until the matter is probed.

Meanwhile, the contractor who does not wish to be named put the blame on the rainy season for the dilapidated condition of the road by saying that the work was done last week and the tar could not hold on to the road because of incessant rain.