Repair of road to Baba Ghulam shrine begins
Tribune News Service

Shahdara Sharief (Rajouri), March 10
Finally, the government has started repairing the road to the shrine of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah here. Due to the dilapidated condition of the road, not only locals are suffering but also thousands of pilgrims who visit the shrine.

Four years back, the government had undertook repair and upgrade of the road to the shrine. However, half of the work on the road hasn’t been completed yet.

Residents, who are heaving a sigh of relief after work began on the ill-maintained road, told The Tribune that the government had started the repair work on this 6.4-km-long road four years ago, but it was taken up just for a couple of days in a year. They added that since the repair work was going on at a snail’s pace, this had led to deterioration of the road.

“We are hoping that now the work on the road will continue till it is fully repaired ,” hoped Afzal Khan, a local resident. In 2004, the then Chief Minister, Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, got work started to upgrade this road through the PWD. Four years have gone by but less than half of the work only has been completed.

Even the shrine management hopes that the work will be completed soon.

A PWD officer told The Tribune: “We have been told to complete the first 4 km from Thanamandi by March 31. The rest of the road will be probably completed by October-end.”