Srinagar, May 15: Cornered over the dilapidated condition of the Canal Road, a vital link between Airport Road and Rawal Pora, the government last year spend millions on this road in south City to make it robust through RBI Grade 81, a globally known special compound, believed of making road surface “cement strong”. But delay in subsequent blacktopping, left the road back in shambles.
 Last year on the instructions of the MoS Roads and Building department, Javed Ahmed Dar, the R&B woke up to the Canal Road mess, in bad condition for years.
 Given the strategic importance of the link road, which serves as an alternative for reaching the Srinagar International Airport and the Technical Airport, the state police is understood to have asked the R&B to make the two odd kilometre long road smooth for vehicular movement.
 After months of alleged dilly-dallying, the RBI Grade 81 treatment was done in September 2011, a month close to the end of blacktopping season in Kashmir.
 Though the RBI Grade 81 treatment, as per the locals, was done in time, there was a delay on the part of the R&B in getting the road macadamized thereafter.
 This was despite the fact that the experts had sought immediate blacktopping, failing which the road couldn’t stay well after the RBI Grade 81 treatment.
 And the same came true. The R&B slept over the blacktopping till the macadamization season ended. And the coming wet winter was enough to wither away millions spend on the specialized treatment.
 When contacted an R&B official said the road couldn’t be blacktopped in-time because of unprecedented rains and subsequent harsh winter.
 Meanwhile, the people living along the road have appealed the Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda to get the “misuse of public money probed through Crime Branch.”

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