Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 8: The Jammu and Kashmir Roads and Building department has reportedly furnished incorrect information about the total road length in the state. A total of 19773 kilometers gap in road length is being observed in the data furnished by the state government in comparison to the data according to Indian Statistical Abstract (ISA) of Union government.
Sources informed Early Times that National Rural Roads Development Agency, Ministry of Rural Development has shot a letter to Principal Secretary of Roads and Building department, Tanveer Jahan, inviting her personal intervention to sort out the issue and furnish updated information regarding road length.
"NRRDA had decided to introduce Roads Information System (RIS) based on Relational Database Management System (RDMS) and Geographical Information System (GIS), for computer based system. In order to introduce computer based system it is imperative that a road list of state (irrespective of owing agencies) is compiled at one place", NRRDA had observed, adding, "To allocate funds for up gradation/network maintenance, NRRDA would need to objectively prioritize amongst all roads".
Nearly six months back, sources said, the NRRDA had forwarded a communication to state government for sending the road length, irrespective of sector and after repeated perusal by NRRDA, the state government had reportedly forwarded the list to NRRDA nearly a month back.
After analyzing the data, sources said, the NRRDA when brought the road details sent by state government, to common standards and RDBMS and reconverted in excel format, found that there was data gap of nearly 19773 kilometers in the total length of roads less than as reported in GOI's Indian Statistical Abstract (ISA).
The NRRDA further observed that a closer look at the list, would show that there exists some discrepancies relating to proper name and spelling of the roads, duplicacy etc.
In a recent communication to Principal Secretary R&B, sources said, the NRRDA had sought latter's personal intervention observing that if the state government would feel that there would be no discrepancy in the list provided by state government, than NRRDA would communicate to ISA to rectify the data. |
