Mughal road not yet motorable 
Shariq Majeed
Tribune News Service

Rajouri, October 6
Despite getting instructions from Governor N.N. Vohra to make the Mughal road motorable before Eid, the Mughal road project authorities have failed to do so.
The Governor, during his visit on September 7 to the Mughal road project site at Dubjan in Shopian district, had directed the engineers concerned to make the road motorable at the earliest.
The 84-km-long Mughal road project is the shortest link between Jammu and Kashmir provinces. Out of the 84 km stretch, more than 42 km lies on the Bufliaz side in Jammu province and the rest 42 km lies on the Shopian side.
An employee of the Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), the contractor for the project, disclosed that about 39.5 kms had been made motorable on the Bufliaz side, while more than 40 km had been completed on the Shopian side.
Sources said the two-month-long Amarnath land row agitation had disrupted construction work as the supply of construction material, explosives and fuel for machines was delayed.
A.K. Kachroo, executive engineer, Mughal road project, (Bulfliaz division), while confirming that the road couldn’t be made motorable on Eid, said it would be done by the first week of November.
“We will make the road motorable by the end of this month or start of November but that is subject to fair weather conditions”, Kachroo claimed.