SHILLONG,March 12: After 50 years of Statehood, villages which include Mawstep, Pyrsa-Kukon and Rngidiengsai will finally get a proper asphalt road of about 3 kms in length which will be constructed at the cost of more than ₹11 crores from the RIDF XXVI.
In order to facilitate the forward movement of the road construction, today the 12th of March, the Deputy Chief Minister of Meghalaya who is also incharge of PWD(Roads), Prestone Tynsong laid the foundation stone in the presence of Sohra constituency MLA, Gavin M.Mylliem, Engineers of PWD, the SDPO and SDO of Sohra Civil Sub-Division and also the local residents.
Speaking at the function, Tynsong informed that the Detailed Project Report( DPR) for repair and development of the road from Mawkdok to Mawstep which is more than 12 kms in length is being prepared through the PMGSY-II. He said that in the next ten years the people of this area will be the richest owing to the beauty of nature and they must make use of it.
He praised the Sohra MLA by saying that even though he speaks less but he does a lot of work, he said that this road will promote tourism in this area, in which he also said that the people are very lucky to have had a change in 2018 for if there had been no change, the local residents would have not been able to see a motorable road there.
Gavin M.Mylliem, the local MLA expressed his gratitude to the Chief Minister, the Deputy Chief Minister and the MDA Government as a whole, and he said that since 2018 when the the MDA came to power, the asphalt laying work for roads could be completed for up to 1850 kms length of roads in Meghalaya at a cost of ₹1300 crores from different budgeted schemes.
