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| Irrigation Deptt's anti-encroachment drive turns out to be Flop-Show......! | | Huge traffic jam at Akhnoor road | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 4: In what could be described as making mockery of its own anti-encroachment drive, the officials of Irrigation department failed to lift temporary structures as well as commodities kept by the violators on department's land on Jammu-Akhnoor highway road.
The anti-encroachment drive not just proved to be a failure but it also led to huge traffic jam on the busy Akhnoor road and its adjoining roads including that of Talab Tillo and another road leading towards Bakshi Nagar and Government Medical College and Hospital, Maheshpura. Vehicular movement was virtually stopped as every passing vehicle was applied brakes on the road to watch the 'drama' in the name of anti-encroachment drive enacted by the officials at helm of affairs in Irrigation department.
Further, the said drive earned sheer humiliation from the passersby who mocked at the field officials of Irrigation department terming the drive as filler gaps.
Sources informed that following the instructions of higher ups, an anti-encroachment campaign was launched today morning by the officials of Irrigation department accompanied by heavy contingent police headed by SP, City North, SDPO, Bakshi Nagar and SHOs of police stations Bakshi Nagar and Nowabad. There was visible encroachment by shopkeepers, some Saw Mill owners and also by some people having their houses on Akhnoor road.
According to eyewitnesses, the officials failed lift the encroachment instead did dismantled some walls and fencing. Further, they did not lift/seize the entire material including big logs of wood kept by Saw Mill owners on the land that belonged to Irrigation department. The entire episode continued from morning at 10:30 am till 4:00 pm starting from Canal Road area till Paloura.
Surprisingly, once the campaign was over, the shopkeepers re-occupied the land in front of their shops and placed the material again on the roadside. As a result, the entire exercise proved to be a complete waste.
With non-cooperation of Executive wing and Traffic wing of state police, the traffic movement on Akhnoor road came to standstill with drivers making double lanes in order to pass early. As Cops escorting the Irrigation team were seen least bothered to check the traffic jam, for commuters it took hours to pass from the busy Akhnoor road.
Hundreds of vehicles that tried to change the route and entered on Talab Tillo road as well as State Guest House Road, it further led to traffic jam on both the roads as handful of traffic cops deployed on the said roads failed to control such big number of private and commercial vehicles.
While attempts to contact Chief Engineer, Irrigation, proved futile, a field official of the department while speaking to ET on the condition of anonymity shared that it was difficult to check encroachments unless any strict action was taken against the defaulters.
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