In the past three years, mere 15 percent work has been completed on four-laning of the Banihal-Ramban stretch of the Srinagar-Jammu highway, even as the deadline for the project is ending this year.
Category: Roads
Z-morh tunnel work in crisis
The work on the 6.5-km-long Z-morh tunnel on the Srinagar-Kargil highway, which was halted in July last year after the executing agency ran into financial troubles, is likely to miss the 2020 deadline.
Will Mughal road tunnel ever be a reality?
A proposal to construct a tunnel on the historic Mughal Road and make it an all-weather route has not seen any progress for the past eight years despite repeated assurances from the government of India. From the National Conference-Congress government to the PDP-BJP dispensation in Jammu and Kashmir, the successive regimes in the state have […]
Work on Srinagar-Banihal road sees no end
Despite facing cost escalation of over Rs 116 crore and four-year delay, the widening work on arterial Srinagar-Banihal road link connecting Kashmir with the rest of the world is yet to be completed.