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| Gujjar Nagar residents resist road widening | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Nov 29, Despite handing over the entire compensation amount to the occupants of the houses, shopkeepers whose installations were to be demolished enroute Gujjar Nagar for road widening, the district administration is yet to complete the enormous task of vacating these buildings and taking possession of the land.
Authoritative sources claimed that in almost all the cases the district administration has completed all the necessary formalities and have even distributed the money to the families, businessmen whose establishments came in the way of road widening operations. However, the the occupants have refused to comply and in several cases they are not vacating the buildings. In some other cases the dispute with regard to settling compensation amount have cropped up and bothering the district administration authorities.
The only concern of the district authorities is that since Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is closely monitoring the progress of the work and uses the Gujjar Nagar road on daily basis it become difficult for the district authorities to hide any thing from him or other senior functionaries of the state government.
The district administration has recently deputed senior officials to convey their concern to the members of the families still living in partial damaged houses to expedite the shifting work to allow the officials of the Road and Buildings department to take up the construction work on priority basis but in the absence of any progress on the front the work on the road is going on at snail's pace.
Inside reports revealed that the district authorities are facing lot of resistance from the local residents as they have failed to settle their compensation dues.
Official sources said when the Gujjar Nagar colony was regularised by the Jammu development authority the residents duped the state government by hiding the exact information with regard to total occupation of land and avoided paying total dues to the JDA.
Now when the road expansion work started the district authorities relied on the same data and settled the compensation amount on the basis of the written records available with the JDA.
The residents when realised their own mistake made all possible attempts to build pressure on the district authorities to record their claims afresh so that they could extract adequate compensation but all their efforts failed and the deadlock persists on the ground. When contacted the senior district authorities claimed that the matter is under active consideration and realising the importance of the ongoing road expansion work have decided to refer the matter to the minister incharge to seek guidance in the matter before deciding the case. (kip)
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