Port Blair, Feb 27: The NHIDCL had earlier set a target to complete the repair works for Jirkatang to Middle Strait ATR stretch to March 15,2021 but now because of the delay in ATR repair works in Kadamtala Jarawa area this deadline has been changed to March 31, 2021.

Talking to Andaman Daily, a senior officer of NHIDCL today mentioned that the contractors were earlier asked to complete the work by March 15 but that is not possible now. He assured that by March 31, 2021 the work will be completed.
Earlier in the first week of February NHIDCL had told Andaman Daily that the deadline for completing this work is February 25,2021.
In the beginning, NHIDCL was not given permission to construct proper road inside the Jarawa Tribal Reserve and hence they had to lay only a 40 mm of surface over the existing road surface.
The NHIDCL had already laid one layer earlier and now the work for the second layer of road along with remaining road works on some patches will have to be completed.
In 2016 and 2017, Islanders had seen that said stretch of road was in most horrible shape, later the NHIDCL up-graded the road stretch by laying a 40 mm road surface over the old road surface.
Sadly the newly upgraded stretch has now developed thousands of potholes and in many parts the road surface has gone missing.