Sadhna tunnel still a distant dream
Three years ago, a heart wrenching incident caught people’s attention when a man from Karnah area of Kupwara district was forced to walk ten kilometres carrying his mother’s dead body on his shoulders in peak winter to reach his native village.
His mother had died at Pathankot in Feb 2017. He brought her body to Srinagar and then to Kupwara. But following heavy snowfall and closure of Karnah-Kupwara road, the man had no option but to trek a 50 km distance over snow-bound mountains on Sadhna Top with the body of his mother.
The incident shook everyone and voices for the construction of a tunnel at Sadhna pass grew stronger. Three years down the line, not to talk of tunnel, even a Detailed Project Report (DPR) has not been prepared.
