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| Guv admin again exposes PDP-BJP Govt.'s laziness | | Flyover kept in limbo for years inaugurated finally | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 30: The Governor's administration seems to have given a tight slap on the face of previous coalition of BJP and PDP which in spite of funds and resources couldn't complete the much hyped Jahangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover in Srinagar for many years.
As Governor Satya Pal Malik inaugurated the Jehangir Chowk-Alochi Bagh limb of the Jehangir Chowk- Rambagh flyover on Sunday, the social media was abuzz about how pathetic was the functioning of the BJP-PDP coalition that couldn't complete the flyover for years together.
The story of this flyover goes like this:
On May 21, 2017, the then minister for R&B had said that work on the Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover is apace and will be completed in September 2017.
The project, on which work began in 2013, is funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and executed by Economic and Reconstruction Agency (ERA).
The 2.4-km flyover missed many deadlines due to dispute with shopkeepers, floods in 2014, and the 2016 uprising. Its completion is expected to reduce the travelling time from Jehangir Chowk to Hyderpora and will ease traffic jams in the city.
Meanwhile, appending wide scale backlash over snail's pace work, the government on September 23, 2017 tasked the Divisional Commissioner Kashmir to steer the ship to its shore and monitor the work over the fly over.
Reports inform that the R&B was being slammed by one and all in Valley over the way it is monitoring the work of the flyover- the construction of which has led to total chaos in the summer capital- resulting in traffic mess and wide scale snarls.
Interestingly, the then R&B minister Naeem Akhtar Andrabi had that year set several deadlines for the completion of flyover and finally stating that "it was not the nikhah of a boy and a girl that would be done within a time frame." His statement was viewed as his inefficiency to speed up the ongoing work of the corridor.
Later, Naeem set one more deadline and had stated that the first link of the flyover connecting Amar Singh College with Barzulla would be operational by the end of August 2017. However, later the government said the link will be operational by the end of 2017. Neither of the two assurances could see day's light.
Now, when the Governor administration has done what was impossible for the previous coalition, people are asking both BJP and the PDP what good they have done for the state till the time they enjoyed power.
Meanwhile, on Sunday Governor congratulated the executing agencies and observed that the completion of this 1.38 km portion of Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover will decongest traffic and considerably reduce travel time from airport to the city centre and vice-versa, besides providing relief to the business community across the busy stretch between Jehangir Chowk and Rambagh.
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