KL Report
SRINAGAR
Over 100 kilometres long Srinagar-Muzaffarabad highway will have a better look, thanks to some additional works by Beacon authorities to spruce it up ahead of Minister of India, Narendra Modi’s first to Jammu and Kashmir on ensuing Friday.
Official sources told GNS that while the Beacon authorities have already patched up plethora of potholes which result due to snow and wintry conditions every year, macadamization of few stretches have also been completed along the highway.
Besides, they said, repair works also have been almost completed on parapet walls, painting all along the highway which about 115 kilometres from Srinagar to Kaman post near Line of control.
The Beacon authorities, they said, are about to complete work road stretch from Salamabad to Kaman post.
On his maiden visit to Valley on July 4, Prime Minister will inaugurate the 240 megawatt Uri II hydel project on the LoC in Uri besides attending a high-level security meeting at 15 Corps headquarters.
As part of his visit to the state, Modi is scheduled to first reach Jammu and inaugurate the 25-km Udhampur-Katra railway line on Friday.
Pertinently, former Congress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was scheduled to inaugurate the power project but the programme was deferred due to a technical issues.
The 240 MW power project constructed by the HCC has already been handed over to the NHPC.
