The Tral-Satura road construction undertaken by Road and Buildings (R&B) department is being hampered due to delay in the shifting of utilities like electric poles and water supply lines from the site, official sources said.
Everyday thousands of people travelling down the main roadwhich connects main sub-district Tral with Tehsil Aripal have to bear with thispathetic road.
Greater Kashmir hadearlier carried a story on the road. People complained they face immense hardships owing to dilapidatedcondition of the road which connects them with main town and rest of thevalley.
“The R&B has failed to complete it in time due tovarious issues including the lack of coordination from the other departments.There are some bottlenecks particularly shifting of utilities,” said anofficial. “The Public Health Engineering (PHE) and Power Development Department(PDD) departments have failed in the timely shifting of the utilities coming inway of the road widening”.
The electric poles, water supply lines and telecom cablesare yet to be shifted which has affectedthe progress of work.
When contacted executive engineer PHE division AwantiporaChander Kant Sudan told Greater Kashmir that the total project cost is Rs 4.22crores and only Rs 40 lakhs have been given to PHE department for shifting ofwater supply lines coming in the way of widening process. “An additional amountof Rs 55 lakhs was also sanctioned recently,” he added.
The High Court has directed the PHE department to file thelatest status report with regard to shifting of water pipelines on the road.
The direction came after advocate Mohammad Ashraf Wani petitioned the court that the road from Tralto Satura is under construction since last two years.