Srinagar, May 11: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti threw open the first phase of Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh Expressway Corridor from Amar Singh College to Barzalla bridge here today.
Being built at a cost of Rs 350 crore, the ADB funded project would hugely decongest the traffic on the road towards Barzalla and Srinagar Airport and the time to cover the area would also be reduced by a great measure.
Ministers Naeem Akhtar, Syed Altaf Bukhari, Muhammad Ashraf Mir and Asiea Naqash; MP, Fayaz Ahmad Mir; several legislators; Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan and other senior officers were present on the occasion.
The Natipora limb of the project is going to be made trafficable within two months and the whole 4-lane flyover spanning more than one-and-half kilometres would be made functional by the year end, an official press release informed.
The project is being executed by the Jammu and Kashmir Economic Reconstruction Agency (JKERA).
Earlier, the Chief Minister was briefed about the salient features of this ambitious project by the CEO, ERA.
The project missed the original deadline of completion due to the unrest of 2016 and floods of 2014, the press release said.
Two injured in accident on newly inaugurated flyover
Srinagar, May 11: Minutes after Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti inaugurated a portion of Rambagh-Jahangir Chowk flyover, a couple was injured after being hit by a speeding motorcycle.
However, they received minor injuries in the accident, and were later taken to Bones and Joints Hospital at Barzulla, where doctors declared their condition as “stable”.
