Tral- Aripal road in shambles, commuters face a tough time

Tral- Aripal road in shambles, commuters face a tough time

SRINAGAR,: People living in dozens of villages located along the Tral-aripal road in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district have to wait for a few more years to see the road getting blacktopped, even as they continue to suffer.
The locals said that the work on the newly approved road is going on at snail’s pace, creating inconvenience to hundreds of commuters every day. “It was after waiting for 12 years that Government started the blacktopping and widening of our road but frequent interruptions have only added to our woes,” Mohammad Sultan, a resident of aripal said.
With an estimated cost of nearly Rs 34 crores the Roads and Buildings Department picked up the widening and blacktopping of the 11 kilometres stretch road from Tral to Aripal. “The project was supposed to be completed in one year,” an official at Roads and Buildings Department said.
Locals lamented that seven months have passed but the road is far from completion, “We are facing a tough time due to lack of proper road. For last 12 years our travel experience has been worst due to pathetic condition of the 11 kilometres stretch road,”Gh Nabi a local said, adding the patients and students are bearing the brunt of the dilapidated road surface.
The locals said they thought that the project would end their decade long suffering but the slow pace of work has dashed their hopes, “It seems we have to suffer more as the project is nowhere near completion,” the locals rued.

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