Mokokchung, August 18 (MExN): Given the deplorable road condition leading to the Phangsang Ad-hoc Town, the teachers serving in the seven government schools in the three villages and one town came together to repair the road leading to their destination and carried out a mass road repairing work on Thursday, August 18.
The endeavour was participated by nearly six hundred persons from the three villages and one town participating in the road repairing work.
The initiative to start this work was taken up at first by some teachers some teachers posted in the area who commute daily from Mokokchung to the Phangsang areas, which is roughly thirty kilometers away from Mokokchung town.
The narrow road which was blacktopped in the middle of the 2000’s was in a deplorable condition. With no government help forthcoming, the teachers, numbering nearly sixty of them, decided to collect a sum of money among themselves for a couple of months. They approached the village councils of Chakpa village, Yaongyimti (Old), Yaongyimti (New) and Phangsang Adhoc town council for logistical help.
On Friday, August 18, nearly six hundred villagers were mobilized and repaired the road, which is the main lifeline of the four villages and the only town in the area.
The volunteers repaired nearly ten kilometers of the worst hit stretch of the road. Two pickup trucks and one mini truck was pressed into action to transport the boulders while the volunteers filled up the pot holes and also cleared the drainage.
It may be noted that there are seven government run educational institutions in the area: three government primary schools at Chapha village; one government high school and one GPS at Phangsang; one GMS at Yaongyimti (New) and one GPS at Yaongyimti (Old).
