Mission G20: Beautiful Posters, Dug Up Roads And Pavements, How Srinagar바카라�s Facelift Is Playing Out On Ground

Beautiful posters are up across Srinagar as large-scale construction activities dig the roads and pavements, disrupting everyday traffic in the Jammu and Kashmir capital. 

The construction activities are part of Srinagar바카라�s facelift ahead of a G-20 working group meeting expected to take place in the city in May. However, traders of Srinagar are complaining that 70 per cent of their businesses have been affected due to these major facelift projects.

Under innovative smart city project, extensive construction is going on at around 100 sites in Srinagar and the government intends to complete some of these projects before a working group meeting of tourism delegates of G-20 nations. India is hosting the G-20 Summit later this year. Prior to the leaders바카라� summit, meetings of officials and delegations are taking place across the country. 

The meeting in Srinagar also assumes significance as it is taking place after the abrogation of Article 370.
Officials say construction activities in Srinagar would complete in April.  They insist obstructions caused by construction work are temporary. 

바카라�Our aim is that we should complete these projects in Lal Chowk and other areas in April. It is a temporary inconvenience. We did not stop the work even in the winter,바카라� Srinagar Municipal Commissioner Athar Aamir Khan.

As the government faced criticism for 바카라�narrowing the roads and widening footpaths바카라� all across Srinagar, Khan argues that the work on roads and pavements in the city is being carried out under Indian Road Congress Standards.

바카라�Uniformity is necessary for roads. No road should be wide in some places and narrow in other places. That is what is being done. We are making roads uniform. Wherever we get excessive space on the roads, we turn those spaces into on-the-spot parking slots. All the projects have been well-designed. In some places, footpaths were so high it was difficult to step on them. A footpath should not be above six inches from the road. That is what we are doing,바카라� said Khan. 

The government is widening the footpath along Dal Lake saying it will allow people huge space to walk and even sit to have a clearer view of the lake.

The traders say they have appealed to the government to expedite construction work.    

바카라�We are on the verge of closing our shops and are not so optimistic about the revival of the business as no one can reach our shops,바카라� says a spokesman of the Joint Traders Association.