AJK to build motorway network soon

Mirpur: Azad Jammu Kashmir will soon have a grand highway-cum-motorway network, aimed at providing comfortable travelling facilities to the commuters and the AJK government has decided in principle to implement the plan under a phased programme, official sources said.

The AJK government has planned to establish a grand and latest roads network across AJK. Kashmir Highway Authority has already been established to execute the plan, they added. The proposed highways network of international standard from Keil to Bhimbher will be laid down by reputed and experienced construction companies including the contractors involved in the construction of the Silk Route linking Pakistan with China.

After completion of latest highways and motorway network across AJK toll tax system will be introduced in the area to collect the tax amount to meet onward expenditures of similar public welfare projects. Sources said that 'Slide Management System' has been introduced in AJK to make all AJK highways usable round-the-clock. They said that it is aimed to ensure interruption-free travelling facilities to the masses in the mountainous areas where travellers have to suffer long delays because of landslides.

Official sources said that experts including engineers involved in development projects of public welfare including roads and highways will have to declare life time of each projects. The AJK government has already warned that there would be no compromise on quality of the development projects in the liberated area.

The officials have launched a broad-based plan for speedy development and uplift of AJK in line with the means of modern construction with special focus to convert the area into a true model and welfare state under the spirit of Prime Minister Attique's broad-based vision of 'Green and Skilled Kashmir', sources added.