Residents of Saleha Street suffering due to dilapidated road

Roads of PP-6 once again ignored

Rawalpindi

The residents of Saleha Street along Defence Road in PP-6 jurisdiction are suffering due to deteriorating condition of roads. The locality has poor sewerage system and road infrastructure.

The city district government, Rawalpindi, once again did not include PP-6 which falls in the jurisdiction of Potohar Town under ‘Khadim-e-Ala Rural Road Programme (KRRP)'. Although the price of land is skyrocketing at Defence Road, but, despite this phenomenon, facilities like carpeted roads, sewerage and water pipelines are non-existent.

District Officer (DO) Planning Saima Ghafoor admitted that roads of PP-6 were once again ignored. “We are trying to include PP-6 in the scheme to facilitate inhabitants of Defence Road,” she said adding all people have equal rights to better road infrastructure. 

The road needs immediate attention of the city district government, Rawalpindi, as it is the main transit for the residents of Munawar Colony, Hill View Lane, Kalyal and Askari-14.

Talking to ‘The News,’ the inhabitants of Saleha Street said that the concerned authority is carpeting those roads which were already fine but have not stared work on dilapidated roads.

Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench Assistant Registrar Khawaja Basharat said that this road is not only damaging vehicles but it is also affecting public health due to accumulation of sewerage and rainwater on the road. A huge population depends on this road. In case of emergency, one cannot imagine to travel on this road with ease and in case there is some patient inside a vehicle, he/she has to suffer due to the bumpy ride, he denounced.

Mukhtar Ahmed, a resident of Defence Road, said that they have every right to having good roads, but the city district government, Rawalpindi, is repairing those roads which are already in a better condition. “We appeal to the Punjab government to pay some attention to this issue before monsoon rains," he said.