Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, June 29: The road leading to village Sohanda, Panchayat Jatwal area of district Samba has been in a bad condition for the last several years.
According to the report, there are about 100 houses in this village Sohanda, Panchayat Jatwal area of Samba district, but the road leading to this village is in such a bad condition that people have to face a lot of trouble in reaching the village. The condition of the road leading to Sohanda village is bad for the last few years and the people have taken up the issue with concerned PWD authorities’ number of time but till date no one has paid attention to this road.
Meed Choudhury, a resident of the village, told this Correspondent that the road that has been going to their village is in a dilapidated condition for last many years. “We have made the Executive Engineer PWD aware of it urging him to start the work on it immediately but he did not pay any attention to solve the grave problem despite the fact that this road has become a death trap. Due to the deterioration condition of road there are accidents on it and people driving their vehicles on it are facing a nightmarish experience”, he added.
He said the road was tendered one year ago and after that the work was allotted to a contractor, but the work was not later started.
He said that many times people of the area have also visited to the office of Executive Engineer PWD for starting of the work on the road but to no avail with the result the accidents take place daily on this road. The residents also said that the Executive Engineer PWD every time gives assurance that the work will be started on the road but till date it has not been started.
The people of the village Sohanda have appealed to DC Samba, Rohit Khajuria that the road has also been tendered but the work has not been started yet. They demanded that the work be started as soon as possible, he added.
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