Dilapidated road to UCIL’s Bagjata Mines in need of immediate repair

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, June 26: The main road leading to Uranium Corporation of India Ltd’s (UCIL) Musabani Bagjata uranium project in East Singhbhum district is dilapidated and crying for immediate repairs. During inspection, Musabani BDO Seema Kumari was unhappy with the road’s dilapidated conditions. Gohla Panchayat Mukhiya Parbat Hansda, who was present on the spot, demanded that the BDO should immediately order resumption of the repair work that had been stalled since three months. He said that the commuters were facing extreme difficulties in negotiating this road that had become a hotbed for accidents.

Mukhiya Parbat Hansda informed, “The foundation stone for this road had been laid three months ago that raised hope among the villagers of getting a better road after 22 years of wait. But due to reasons best known to the administration, the repair work was stopped.”

There was resentment among the villagers was at its peak and unless the repair work was resumed immediately, accidents of serious nature could take place any day.