SRINAGAR Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed Power Development Department to ensure proper shutdowns to enable construction of two bridges on Highway.
Hearing a public interest litigation, a division bench of the court passed the orders after being informed that in so far as the National Highway from Srinagar to Qazigund was concerned, construction of two bridges is stalled on account of overhead transmission line.
The Power Development Department shall look into the matter and examine the request of respondents 10 and 11 for ensuring proper shutdown to enable construction of the bridges, the court ordered.
The court has already impressed all the concerned authorities to work in tandem as a single team and ensure that court orders are implemented.
In one of the status reports, J&Ks Inspector General of Police Traffic had stated that wherever traffic mess taking place, it is because of the decrepit roads.
Dilapidated condition of the road leads to slow traffic movement which causes frequent traffic jams, the IGP had said, underling that it also affects the job of men in uniform to regulate the traffic and avoid jams, causing inconvenience to motorists and general public.
The PIL seeks directions for repairing the highway especially from Banihal to Srinagar and Srinagar to Baramulla. However, the court subsequently widened the scope of the petition to encompass roads across the Valley.
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