The prestigious four-laning project of the 300-km Jammu-Srinagar national highway, being executed to provide all-weather road connectivity to the Kashmir valley, has become a casualty to rampant ‘political interference’. The work on the treacherous 79-km Udhampur-Banihal stretch of the highway is yet to pick up pace due to “law and order” problems created by “political workers”. Given the difficulties faced by the executing agencies, the road project is likely to get delayed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone of the 79-km Udhampur-Banihal stretch —Ramban-Udhampur road (43-km) and…
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