SrinagarThe Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday rejected as unsatisfactory the report by Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) with regard to increasing the height of skewed bridge on river Jhelum opposite to a famous school at Rajbagh here.
Hearing a suo-moto Public Interest Litigation, a division bench of Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey directed ERA to carry spot verification and file report to the court by next date of hearing.
In April this year, the High Court ordered government to construct skewed and not the footbridge over Jhelum.
In so for as Skewed bridge was concerned, the court had directed the authorities to proceed ahead with the construction as per original plan of 1981 by completing it and throwing it open for the traffic.
On 24 October 2013, the high court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed by advocate Aftab Hilali Shah and others in which a claim was made that the skewed bridge was contrary to public interest and would adversely affect the environment and the security of the children studying in the school.
Interestingly, the government in an affidavit had stated that the project was approved by it on 13.10.1981 for Improvement to Road Communication System in Srinagar City. Besides the skewed bridge, the project envisaged construction of new roads and improvement, up-gradation and widening of some existing roads.
In the Master Plan 1971-91 for the city, there was vision for the North-South corridor connecting the southern parts of the city with the core and northern areas and decision was taken by the Government to construct a 2-Lane Abdullah Bridge connecting TRC with Rajbagh. The bridge has only a two lane approach on the Rajbagh side.
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