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| NPP holds protest, welcomes Gadkari with black flags in Jammu | | Remove toll plazas, pay land compensation to farmers for PMGSY roads: Harsh | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 24: Agitated over the non-payment of compensation to the farmers of J&K for lands acquired from them for construction of PMGSY roads besides pathetic condition of roads and National Highways and multiple toll plazas installed in Jammu region, a strong contingent of JKNPP led by Harsh Dev Singh, chairman JKNPP and former minister held a massive protest demonstration at Jammu holding black flags on the arrival of the union road transport minister, Nitin Gadkari.
The protestors alleging large scale work done liabilities in R&B, CRF and PMGSY sectors besides wrongful expropriation of land from farmers without adequately compensating them for their ancestral properties. They were restrained by the huge contingent of police amidst minor scuffles with the security personnel who raised barricades to prevent them from marching ahead. Ridiculing the Govt for its haughty and supercilious claims and vague announcements over connectivity in J&K, Harsh Dev called upon the Union Ministers to first ascertain the fate of R&B projects earlier announced by them years back for J&K. Not only was the rural road infrastructure in shambles but most of the R&B schemes announced in 2014 and thereafter had been either abandoned half way or suffering cost overruns with none to take cognizance. The National Highway Project from Udhampur to Chenani presented the most deplorable plight with the construction work on the 26 km stretch lingering there on for the last seven years at a snail’s pace. He further reminded the Union Road Transport Minister of his commitment of time bound double laning of Udhampur-Barmeen-Ghordi-Ramnagar road made by him in 2014 during election campaign at Ghordi and regretted that the said announcement too had proved to be a mere ‘Jumla’. Seeking declaration of National Highway from Ramnagar-Basantgarh-Latti-Chenani, Singh said that it could provide an alternative route to the traffic plying to Srinagar and Doda. |
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