By December of next year, National Highway (NH) 415 construction under Packages B and C should be finished.
Even though the portion of Package B between Papu Nallah and Nirjuli is only 11.3 km long, construction on it is moving along at a glacial rate.
A resident of the Yupia trijunction area said that “The executing agencies should expedite their work and try to complete the work before the arrival of the monsoon season.”
A resident of Lekhi expressed dissatisfaction over the dusty road and said that “the agencies concerned should at least come up with a plan to sprinkle water on the dusty road,” adding that two-wheeler riders are largely affected by dust on sunny days.
The stretch under Package C, from Nirjuli to Banderdewa, which is 7.3 kms long (including an approximately 1.1 km long viaduct), and is to be completed by August 2024, “is in progress, with 54.36 percent of the work already done,” PHED Highway EE Bini Pelen informed.
