Commuters face hardships due to dilapidated road near under-construction flyover at Delina

Baramulla, Mar 27: The road at the under-construction flyover near Delina, Baramulla, is in shambles, causing inconvenience to commuters and residents of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district along the Srinagar-Baramulla highway.

The commuters and locals have urged the Baramulla district administration to direct the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) Project Beacon authorities to macadamise the road at the construction site of the under-construction flyover at Delina in Baramulla.

Locals here said that ever since the executing agency carried out widening of the road besides starting construction on the flyover at Delina, the road near the flyover is in shambles, causing immense hardships to both commuters and the locals here.

Irshad Ahmad, a local resident of Delina, said that the dust emanating from the road has turned the life of people into hell and led to severe respiratory problems among them.

He said that a commuter can pass by the road wearing only a face-mask, while the locals residing close to the road have to shut the window panes of their houses and businesses at all times to escape from the dust.

“The people here are facing immense hardships owing to the dilapidated road condition,” Irshad said. “The elders are worst affected as they face respiratory issues owing to the thick dust layer always in the air.”

Mohammad Mateen, another resident, while lashing out at the executing authorities said that following the road widening and work on the Delina flyover, the authorities should have macadamised the road stretch through which vehicles heading for Srinagar, Sopore, and Baramulla are passing.

“The bad road condition at the junction is now becoming an inconvenience for the people and causing unusual traffic jams,” he said. “The authorities need to look into the issue so that people of the area do not face hardships,” said Mateen.

The patch from Delina to Chinad has more than 4 schools in its vicinity, passing hundreds of school buses throughout the day, and the bad condition of the road is leading to traffic jams on an average day, causing immense problems to the students during rush hours.

The concerned residents said that due to traffic jams caused by the snail’s pace of vehicles, even dozens of ambulances with emergency patients too have to suffer on this road.

They have appealed to the district administration and UT administration to take up the issue with the executing agency and macadamise the road on both sides of the under-construction flyover at Delina.