The damaged service roads on both sides of NH-44 in Samalkha town have become a major problem for residents as well as for commuters for the past one-and-a-half-year. The residents have raised the issue with the authorities several times, but to no avail.
Now, the residents formed a 21-member Samalkha Bachao Sangharsh Samiti on Sunday to begin a movement against the lackadaisical attitude of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
The widening of the 70-km stretch on NH-44 from Mukarba Chowk in Delhi to Panipat has been underway for the past five years. Earlier, the construction of flyovers in Samalkha was almost complete but the construction work of service roads on both sides of NH-44 was pending.
