[Un] Promo UKHRUL ROAD

Welcome to the town that greets you with 3 inch deep dust on a sunny day and a foot long mud on a rainy day. In this town, you either come home with a hair thick with dust or a boot thick with mud. This is Ukhrul Town, a home to over 183,115 Tangkhul Nagas, the headquarter of Ukhrul District in the north-eastern state of Manipur. Nestled on a mountain top, the town experiences a temperature of 0°Celsius to 30°Celsius, and a population density of 40 inhabitants per square kilometre (100/sq mi). The town has a monsoon type of climate year round and receives incessant rain from April to October. Today, we will walk you through this booming town that houses over 50 private schools, higher secondary education and colleges, huddled with thousands of students yet haven’t seen a black top road in decades. The blame game have been going on for too long, like a ping pong ball swung back and forth with private contractors and the state-central government. The innocent townsmen in Ukhrul bears the brunt of corruption. But, for how much longer?