Rs 4 Cr Spent Over 20yrs To Build 1-Km ‘Road’ Stretch!

History of sorts was created in this far-flung border district when the state government last year handed over a major road construction project to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) after having squandered an astto-nomical Rs four crore on ‘creating’ just a kilometre of an improvised fair-weather pathover a period of 20 years. In sharp contrast, the BRO’s Project Sam-park had completed 20 km stretch of the road, by September 10 this year

- Rajinder Singh

According to reports, the park’s very own public works department (PWD) had taken up the construction of 35-km Ghambir Tarkundi road in Rajouri district in 1980 While its physical execution went on at a snail’s pace, the department displayed a mad haste in the booking of expenditure It spent a near Rs four crore till the time the project was finally entrusted to the BRO last year