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R&B gears up blacktopping in Kashmir Mufti for end to bad roads 7/4/2015 10:52:12 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, July 4: After phenomenal improvement in electric supply this year, the Mufti government has started improving road connectivity in the flood-hit Valley. Most of the dilapidated roads, including those in the summer capital Srinagar and the ones connecting other districts, and tourist destinations, are being blacktopped on priority. The people say they feel a sigh of relief. "The road between SMHS Hospital and SKIMS Soura was in shambles, but now it is better," said Shabir Ahmed, a resident of Darish Kadal, where some three kilometer road length has recently been blacktopped on war-footing. Similar is the scene in the busy areas like tourist hub of Dalgate and Tulsi Bagh where the September 2014 floods had left the road connectivity uprooted. Officials said in Srinagar alone, work is on at a dozen places which they said is a record in the recent past. "The previous regime had failed to concentrate on the improvement of road connectivity," said an Executive Engineer, pleading anonymity. Officials said Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is personally keen to see the road connectivity in Kashmir get improved and that he expressed this desire at the recent Srinagar district board meeting. Mufti is understood to have asked R&B Minister Altaf Bukhari to get roads blacktopped on priority. While Srinagar roads are getting the much-needed macadamization, same is true for other districts. Work is apace, on the Khanabal-Pahalgam road, on its 10 kilometer stretch, while Kakapora-Pulwama road is also being blacktopped. Officials said in the past around a fortnight alone, works worth Rs 15 crore have been executed in Kashmir province. R&B Chief Engineer Satish Kumar Razdan, who is personally monitoring the works, said the government was committed to give much-needed post flood respite to the people. "Roads were badly damaged in the last year floods and emerged as main cause of traffic jams…Our priority is to get them repaired on priority so that people feel the much needed sigh of relief," Razdan told Early Times.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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