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Warn to strike the roads, if delay continues further
Ganderbal, 5th June,: Residents of a Kangan neighbourhood, village in district Ganderbal have expressed their dismay over the delay in the construction of bridge at Tangchatter, whose construction process is pending since last 4 years.
Locals, while expressing their anger over the delay in the construction of the bridge told CNS that while countries like China and others complete mighty projects in short span of time, but in Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal area a bridge awaits completion from last one decade.
The delay in completion of this Tangchatter bridge has left people in Lurch and said that they are now tired of roaming from office to office but authorities are unmoved.
The said Tangchatter-Kangan Bridge connects dozens of villages to Sub Division Kangan. The population of said areas is above thirty thousand (30000).
According to locals, the construction on Tangchatter Bridge had started in 2010, but the work on the bridge has been going on at snail’s pace till it was stopped in 2017, for unknown reasons.
They said, “The general public is always deceived by district and state ( now UT) administration and executive body JKPCC”, adding that the bridge was approved under languishing project in 2019 by the then Governor Satyapal Malik, but work has not yet been restored on the construction of the bridge, as JKPCC making an excuses of non-availability of funds to delay the restoration of construction work on the bridge.
“On one hand government assured people that material process was fabricated in Chindigarh and Rajasthan, and on the other hand JKPCC is saying that it has no funds.”
“The two statements from two different executive and administrative bodies have confused 30000 residents of the area”, they added.
They said that the population is facing lot of problems and people are being forced to take patients like pregnant woman on shoulders to reach hospitals in Kangan or Srinagar, adding that the government is playing hide and seek over the construction of the bridge, which connects dozens of villages to subdivision.
“We are tired of submitting representations, to almost every concerned govt official, but nobody is listening to us”, they said.
The locals requested Governor Administration and Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal to immediately redress their grievance.
They also warned the government that if their demand is not redressed before Shri Amarnath Yatra begins, they will block the national highway till their demand if fulfilled. (CNS)
