Highway drains receive official inspection

GANGTOK, 10 June: The East District Administration, in a follow up to the co-ordination meeting convened by District Collectorate with all the line departments including BRO on 08 June, took a team comprising of SDM, Gangtok, Dr. AB Karki, Deputy Mayor, Shakti Singh, Daragaon Councillor, Bhashker Basnet, senior officials of BRO, PHE, UD & HD departments and various others, and inspected all the trouble points along the National Highway upto Ranipool, Indira Byepass and areas above Gangtok today.
The team found most of the drains clogged and water supply pipes and even electric cables hanging in and over the jhoras. In some places, they even found fresh lots of garbage packed into cement bags and dumped in the jhoras.