Khonumthung has leant that the sealed road to Bon-Talar Waterfall in Matupi Township, Southern Chin state has deteriorated so much that most of it is impassable less than a year after it was constructed.
The road runs from Pha Nai village to Lay Myo Chaung stream near Hti Saung village in Matupi township. It was constructed by the Naing Min Company at the beginning of 2014, but it deteriorated during the rainy season according to a local resident.
He said: “Even motorcycles cannot go there now. Farmers use the road to get to their farmland and they have been reconstructing it so that they can use motorcycles. Cars definitely cannot go. Construction of the road was finished in May but it has already deteriorated, it only lasted a few months.
The state government granted the contract to build the three-mile long road to the Naing Min Company.
A village administrator said: “They did not build proper water drainage pipes and tunnels, that is why there was erosion and the road deteriorated. They made the drainage pipes out of wood so they did not last for a long time and the tarmac they used on the road was not durable and it deteriorated in the rain.”
U Ngun Hsan Aung the Chin Transport minister told the State parliament in September that since 2010 the length of roads sealed by tarmac in Chin Sate had increased from 298 miles to 346 miles, meaning that they had built 48 miles of road sealed with tarmac. In that period they also constructed 33 miles of gravel roads.
Translated by Aung Myat Soe English version written by Mark Inkey for BNI
