By Gul Hamaad Farooqi
CHITRAL: Blacktopping Work on Chitral Airport Road is in full swing and soon this road will be metal and people will benefit from it. High quality coal work is underway on this road. Asphalt plant was also installed at Saidabad for this road from Chew Bridge to Chitral Airport. Engineer Shiraz said that while the corona virus affected development works under construction all over the world, the road works in Chitral were also badly affected. He said that there was no asphalt plant in the whole Chitral and now a plants was arranged from down district, the owner of this plant is often unwilling to use it for minor work. He worked hard day and night to satisfy it. Now this plant has been set up and where crush, haka and tar coal are heated and mixed in this plant up to 150 degree Celsius temperature and taken to the road in loader.
The Executive Engineer and SDOs of the C&W department are supervising quality of the work till midnight. However, last night a motor of the fever machine suddenly broke down and it was sent to Tarnol for repairs. However, another machine was immediately rushed here and at the same time rollers and other missionaries were also put to work due to which the work continued vigorously. Is.
Atiq Farooq, Sub-Divisional Officer, C&W Department, is present on the spot at all times to supervise the work so that the quality of work is not substandard.
District Zakat Chairman Muhammad Qasim, who is also a senior leader of the ruling party, visited the work and expressed his satisfaction over it. He said that some people were spreading false propaganda for the sake of fame. Don’t listen to false propaganda and rest assured that we can’t even imagine substandard work in our government.
Mohammad Naeem also passes through this road every day. He says that with the completion of this road, the people will get rid of dust and potholes and they will be able to travel on it with great ease. He said that the Chitral airport used to have very important features on this road and this road was in a very bad condition which was an ugly stain on the beauty of Chitral. Now a lot of standard work is being done on the road and it seems that we are. Passing on a road in Islamabad.
Khalil Ahmed said that some people were trying to spread frustration among the people by spreading very negative propaganda but they will face a lot of embarrassment. Now the work is going on as there are no big missionaries available for construction work in Chitral. The machines have to be brought from down districts which takes time. Now the missionary has reached and the work is going on and it is hoped that soon this road will be blacktopped and opened to the public.
Hazrat Ali from Upper Dir who runs a business in Chitral. He says that earlier the condition of this road was very bad and passers-by had to pass on ditches besides dust now that work on it has started., it will save the people from this dust and tourists coming to Chitral will also enjoy it.
Haji Gulab said that work on this road has just started and we are hopeful that this road will be paved now. This road was a disgrace to the beauty of Chitral. Now that it is under construction, it will not only benefit the locals but also make it easier for tourists to travel.
They also thanked to provincial government for releasing fund of 360 million for this purposes.
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