Tata Energy Research Institute to take up Manipur rly work

IMPHAL, Jan 1 — The survey work for laying the proposed 96-km Jiribam-Imphal railway lines will be taken up by the Tata Energy research Institute soon. Developmental work of the railway lines from Jiribam to Imphal is likely to be initiated at the earliest in order to remove the transport bottlenecks of Manipur. Earlier, the Union Railway Ministry planned to construct a railway line from Diphu (Assam) to Karong (Manipur) and then to Imphal which would have been about 210 km long and would have pass through difficult parts of Nagaland and Karbi Anglong in Assam. General Manager (Construction), North East Frontier Railway, during his visit to Imphal had assured that survey work for the proposed Jiribam-Imphal railway line should commence from January 2002 and end by February 2003.

It may be worth mentioning here that the Jiribam railway station in Jiribam subdivision is the only railway head in Manipur. Considering the advantages of railway line Jiribam to Imphal, the Central authority is taking up the project as a top priority.