STATE TIMES NEWS
CHATROO: The National Highway Kishtwar-Sinthan will be opened next month for the traffic, this was informed by Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Inderwal, G. M Saroori on Wednesday while addressing public meetings here at Chatroo and Chingam in district Kishtwar.
During the second day tour to Sub-Division Chatroo people of Chatroo gave warm reception and thanked Vice President J and K PCC, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori, who has been pivotal in pushing the Singhpora-Vailoo Tunnel and Kishtwar-Sinthan Tourism Project, project through and other projects.
Saroori said after opening of Kishtwar-Sinthan Road it will make shortest road link connectivity between the people of twin hilly and far-flung districts of Doda and Kishtwar with summer capital Srinagar. He said that since Doda-Batote Road has been declared unsafe for vehicular movements after a several stretches washed away near Assar, Ragi Nalla, due to landslides and laid stress were to connect both Doda and Kishtwar District with the rest of the world by way of opening of Kishtwar-Sinthan Road.
“It is the need of the hour that this route connecting Doda and Kisthwar with the rest of the world and road till Aloo farm be opened on 9th May,” said Saroori.
Saroori also said that the dream project of Sub-Division Chatroo in particular and Kishtwar and Doda in general Chatroo-Singhpora-Vailoo Tunnel is in advance stage and said that this is his priority to construct tunnel in the next few years. The ambitious project to bore a tunnel between Vailoo in South Kashmir and Singhpora in Chatroo Kishtwar, once completed, will revolutionise road connectivity between the Kashmir Valley and the Doda region of Jammu.
Tehsildar Chatroo Sheetal Kumar, Executive Engineer R&B H. L. Bhagat, AEE PMGSY Mushtaq Ahmed, AEE PDD Sudhir Sharma, Treasury Officer Masood Mattoo, ZEO Inderwal Fateh Mohd, SHO Ravi Kanth, Officials of PHE, RDD, Administrator Auqaf Bashir Ahmed, and Congress leaders including Mushtaq Ahmed Hap, Ghulam Mohd Kohli, Ghulam Qadir Sheikh, Altaf Hussain Malik, Mansoor Mattoo, Piyaray Lal Sharma, Santosh Kumar, Chowdhary Noor Din, Ghulam Mohd Naik, Bashir Ahmed, Somnath, Kunj Lal, Lachmand Das, Mohan Lal and people in large were present on the occasion.
