Balakote residents demand special road improvement plan

The residents of Balakote area, located close to the Line of Control, demanded a ‘Special Roads Development Plan’ for their area, while highlighting the dilapidated condition of majority of roads there.

Locals, including Ex-Sarpanch Master Anayait Ullah Khan, Mohammed Ayaz Khan, Majeed Khan and youth leader Zahier Khan, issued a statement on the problems faced by the people due to dilapidated conditions of roads in Balakote.

   

They said that a number of villages of Balakote are located along LoC and people face immense hardships due to continuous cross border firing and restrictions. “On one hand, we are a border village and on the other, we are even deprived of basic amenities,” they said.

“Our main problem is the dilapidated condition of road network in the area,” they said. Locals also alleged that concerned departments hardly carry out road repair works on time.

They appealed to the state and union governments to launch a special programme for development of roads in their area.

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