Meghalaya Govt to soon finalise alignment of alternate road from Umiam to Shillong

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaJanuary 17, 2025

The state government will soon finalise the alignment for the construction of the proposed four lane road from Umiam to Shillong. 

Informing this on Friday, Deputy Chief Minister in-charge PWD (Roads & Buildings) Prestone Tynsong said that he held a review meeting today on the proposed road project from Umiam to Shillong.

“We had a detailed discussion and then we decided that the CE of NH Roads will again sit down with the consultants appointed by the NHIDCL in the coming days. They will sit down and then finalised the best alignment to complete that proposed project, which is very important (in view of the safety of the Umiam and dam and the bridge),” he added.

According to him, the power department and the Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited (MeECL) have already imposed a load restriction on vehicles plying the check dam in Umiam.

“We already discussed about this and very soon we will be able to decide the alignment and once the alignment is decided, the detailed project report (DPR) will also be prepared immediately,” Tynsong further informed. 

The deputy CM said,  “This wil be decided by the technical experts along with consultants and once they prepared, the government will approve the proposal. Consultants will sit down with PWD technical experts in the coming days.”

Asked if government has any plan to upgrade the four-lane Jorabad-Shillong road to six-lane road, Tynsong said, “Yes that intention was there. Of course from the ministry of road transport but right now it seems i just came to know that the six lane road will be first done from Jorabad to Naogoan side. And that survey has just started. That project is being taken care by government of Assam.”

On the Sohra – Shillong road, Tynsong informed that the government is contemplating of converting the road into a double lane.

“Yes that also has been included. We will convert it into double lane. We want to want to convert Umtyngar upto beyond Sohra to double lane road. That has been included in the World Bank project,” he stated further.