Recently Chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir. takes stock of progress made on construction of Highways across J&K.
He observed that frequent change in timelines is not good sign and should be corroborated with clear justifications. He maintained that such unilateral change in deadlines should be avoided in future.
He directed the concerned Divisional and District administrations to regularly monitor the pace of work on these important road projects for their timely completion. He also urged them to extend full assistance to the concerned executing agencies by resolving court cases, land disputes, handing over of land and other issues faced by them in smooth execution of these projects.
He held a detailed meeting with representatives of various executing agencies like NHAI, NHIDCL, BRO, Beacon and Project SAMPARK to take stock of progress made so far in laying out the vast network of National Highways across the length and breadth of Jammu and Kashmir.
He took project wise appraisal of progress made so far. He enquired about the possible date of completion of work on each phase of these projects.
Regarding the different phases of Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway, it was apprised that the project has been distributed in several phases and work on each phase is going on simultaneously. It was announced that some phases of this project including Balsua-Hiranagar, Hiranagar-Vijaypur, Vijaypur-Kunjwani and Kunjwani-Sidhra would be completed before September, 2025.