Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 13: Traders of the West constituency took out protest rally today on the Janipur High Court road under the leadership of Sunil Dimple president Jammu West Assembly Movement against worst condition of the city roads leading to traffic jams.
Addressing the protestors, Dimple alleged that no development is taking place in Jammu city and particularly in the West Assembly constituency, where all the development is at halt besides the largest constituency of the State.
He alleged that all the roads of the constituency falling under the PWD City Division are damaged, dust pollution has damaged the show rooms and business goods worth lakhs of rupees and is causing fatal breathing diseases for the people.
Dimple demanded to release funds for standard quality and complete immediate full black topping of the roads.
He urged the Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed to start the construction of flyovers at Rehari Chungi and Jewel Chowk.
He urged to immediately pass the directives to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to stop charging the road tax from the vehicles at BanTalab Nagrota Toll Post.
Others present during the protest were Manjiet Kumar, Dr Sham Saroop, Ramesh Mahajan, Sachin Soi, P C Kapoor, Ajay Kumar Mehta, Rahul Puri, Dr Chuni Lal Bhat, Sanjeev Soi, Anil Abrol, Vijay Sharma, Pappu Kumar, Kulwant Sharma, Shiv Kumar, Satish Abroal, Jagdish Magotra, Sham Luthra, Joginder Kumar, Rajinder Sharma and Kuldep Sharma.