The Falam District Department of Highways under the Ministry of Construction is clearing landslides and debris, using heavy machinery along the Kalewa-Falam-Haka Road between kilometres 127 and 128. Repair work is also underway on damaged sections between kilometres 182 and 197, while landslide debris between kilometres 147 and 151 has been cleared and the road repaired.
Deputy Minister for Border Affairs Maj-Gen Kyaw Swa Oo, together with Chin State Security and Border Affairs Minister Col Khin Maung Htwe and members of the Chin State and Falam reconstruction committees, inspected the road repair and reconstruction work in Falam yesterday morning.
They also inspected the repair of telecommunications facilities, a Myanma Radio and Television relay station, the district road department office and dormitories at the Ethnic Youth Development Training School.
In Tiddim and Tonzang, local reconstruction committees also inspected the progress of repairs to government facilities, schools, staff housing, a fire-water tank and a youth training school dormitory.
