Excelsior Correspondent
SOPORE, Nov 11: Residents of Sopore town are struggling with dilapidated roads as the Government has failed to repair them despite their repeated appeals to the officials concerned.
The roads leading to villages of Sopore and other colonies within the town are marked with numerous pot-holes and have not been macadamised.
Mohammad Asharaf Ganaie, president Traders Federation, Sopore, said their town was plagued with hundreds of un-attended developmental issues, with the district administration completely failing to address any one of them.
Several new residential colonies came up in the town in the last 30 years as population has been increasing, and along with them have been constructed same number of link roads. But the residents said the Government has not macadamised any of these roads.
Residential colonies roads like in Hanfia Colony, Crankhshen Colony, Maharajpora, Sofi Akbar road, road from Court to Iqbal Nagar and Crankhshen Colony, and road along Yasin Shah Market which connects Sopore with Dangerpora at Police Station are marked with pot-holes which have left hundreds of residents irked, especially with the harsh winter setting in.
Showkat Ahmad Wani, Executive Engineer, Road and Buildings Department, said people in Sopore are “thankless” toward the administration. He said the department cannot macadamise the roads at a time.
“Development and concretization of roads takes time, and it cannot be done in a single go. People raise colonies on agriculture land with no proper planning, but still we repair them. Since these colonies and their roads are in low-lying areas which remain submerged as they don’t have proper drainage. This is the reason they get damaged frequently,” Wani said.
He said that despite this people are thankless toward them.
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