Ten major roads, covering a length of 2,264 kms, have been declared as National Highways, Jammu and Kashmir government said. <\/p>\n
Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra yesterday held a high-level meeting to review all matters related to the National Highways, BRO Roads and Mughal Road in the state. <\/p>\n
Jammu-Srinagar, Batote-Kishtwar- Simthan, Uri-Srinagar and Jammu-Akhnoor-Poonch have been declared as the new National Highways, an official spokesperson said. <\/p>\n
The work on six stretches on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway has commenced. Four-laning of the Parimpora-Narbal road on the Uri-Srinagar Highway is also under progress while the 4-laning of the Jammu-Akhnoor sector is likely to start soon, he said. <\/p>\n
The work on Z-Morh Tunnel to promote all weather connectivity with Sonamarg and beyond has commenced and that on Zojila Tunnel project is likely to start soon, he said. <\/p>\n
Vohra also directed the Regional Director of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to take urgent action for developing various amenities along all National Highways, he said. <\/p>\n
The Governor stressed the need for an arrangement for the timely and regular maintenance of National Highways by the various agencies concerned. <\/p>\n
Vohra directed that a time-bound action plan should be drawn for undertaking a drive to remove all encroachments along the NHs in the state, an official spokesman said. <\/p>\n
The review comes in the wake of the death of a member from Gujjar community during an anti-encroachment drive on a highway in Samba district on Monday. <\/p>\n
“No fresh encroachment should be allowed and every encroacher should be strictly dealt with,” Vohra said. <\/p>\n
He expressed concern over encroachments along the highways and the failure of the officials concerned to discharge their duties under the J&K Ribbon Development Act and the Highway Administration Act, 2002, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ten major roads, covering a length of 2,264 kms, have been declared as National Highways, Jammu and Kashmir government said. Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra yesterday held a high-level meeting to review all matters related to the National Highways, BRO Roads and Mughal Road in the state. Jammu-Srinagar, Batote-Kishtwar- Simthan, Uri-Srinagar and Jammu-Akhnoor-Poonch have been declared as the new National Highways, an official spokesperson said. The work on six stretches on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway has commenced. Four-laning of the Parimpora-Narbal road on the Uri-Srinagar Highway is also under progress while the 4-laning of the Jammu-Akhnoor sector is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roads"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}