Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 25: Mayor Jammu, Rajinder Sharma today laid the foundation of the two new bridges at Lower Gadigarh area near SDM office in the outskirts of the city.
The bridges will be completed with budgets of Rs. 1.43 crore and 1.47 crore respectively.
These bridges were very old and were in bad shape and needed reconstruction due to which people faced lot of problems while moving over them.
People earlier demanded reconstruction of the bridges during past two years but to no avail. Only when the Mayor visited the place two months back, he took cognisance of the problem and initiated the process and the construction work of the bridges was started today.
BJP national general secretary, Dr Narinder Singh, former DyCM, Kavinder Gupta, Dy Mayor Balved Singh Billawaria, district president Rekha Mahajan, Mandal president, Vijay Sharma and prominent persons of the area were also present on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion the Mayor said that it is now very clear that all the developmental works on ground are being done by BJP.
“Since the Urban Local Body has been elected works like making of roads, bridges, lanes and drains etc are being constructed by BJP led Urban Local Body of JMC,” he said, adding “What was earlier spent on all the 75 Wards of JMC is now being spent on single Ward for developmental activities.”
Sharma also said that it was BJP which helped people in COVID-19 pandemic by vaccinating public, making their Ayushman Cards, Aadhar Cards, Domicile Certificates and providing them ration and other help apart from accomplishing developmental works as duty.
Speaking on the occasion BJP national secretary, Dr Narinder Singh said on August 15, 2018 PM Modi had announced for the strengthening of local bodies from Red Fort and some political parties have opposed it that time.
“Now, after witnessing the developments, the public should decide if those political parties were against developments or not,” he said.
Former Dy CM Kavinder Gupta said that BJP is determined to develop each and every corner of J&K under the popular slogan of PM Modi, Sab Ka Saath Sab Ka Vikas.
BJP Mandal vice president, B.R Sharma, Inder Khajuria, Rajat Sharma, general secretary, Pushkar Sharma, Suraj Parkash Bakshi, Secretary, Sunita Sharma, ex-Panch, Col. (retd) Rajesh Sharma, Pawan Sharma, Surinder Sharma, Raju Sharma and others were also present on the occasion.
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