Shehr-e-Khaas craves for better roads

The work on several developmental projects are ongoing in Jammu and Kashmir, the face of Srinagar, known as Shehr-e-Khaas is craving for the development as the congested and potholed roads, delay in other much-needed steps continue to add to the miseries of the people here. Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir is visited by the people from outside the Union Territory on a regular basis while people also throng the markets here in Shehr-e-Khaas. To visit the heritage sites and markets of Shehr-e-Khaas, the people are forced to undergo tremendous hardships as most of the time, they are stuck in the congested roads that have never been widened despite the flow of vehicles increasing from time to time. The narrow roads welcome the visitors to Shehr-e-Khaas and this issue needs to be addressed at earliest. The government claimed that the congested roads in Srinagar city will be widened, but unfortunately the process got halted for unknown reasons years ago, resulting in continuous hardships to the people. One fails to understand why the process has got delayed and why the people are being forced to face the hardships persistently. Besides narrow roads, most of the roads, especially interiors are filled with potholes where the macadamization has not been done since years, which is painting a grim picture of famed Shehr-e-Khaas. There is a need to take proper and immediate steps to give Shehr-e-Khaas a facelift so that the people visiting the place will not be forced to face hardships while travelling through the existing narrow and potholed roads. The time has come when the government needs to take apt measures for glory of the prominent Shehr-e-Khaas.