CHITRAL
Widening and construction work has been started on Chitral to Booni Shandor road two years ago and this developmental work has begun after 75 years, on which the people of this tourist area are very happy. Thousands of domestic and foreign tourists also pass on this road every year to see the Qalasht, Broghal and Shandor festivals. However, the public complains that the work standard on this road is very poor. CDM (Chitral Development Movement) a non politicial organization whose members working on volunteer basis they visited the road and reviewed the work on it. CDM members told the media that the protection wall walls on the road side were being made of very poor and sub -standard quality materials. Construction work is not of the standard according to its specification as well as cement work, concrete portion not poured water and there is no proper curing of the work, which is causing the cement work to be damaged and harassed in a few days. During the CDM’s visit, it was also revealed that the contractor Umar Jan & Company had illegally sublated contract to PT contractors and divided the work of different portions to small contractors and ordinary laborers, which further causing of substandard quality of the work. At the time of the collapsing of the mountain, they drilling a hole some 29 feet long and fill them with ammunition, and then explode it with blasting which caused the whole mountain to become extremely horrible and crack it can fell down any time I case of earthquake or rain, snowfall to cause any major casualty.
Some 150 culverts are building in 75 km road from Chitral to Booni, most of which are unnecessary, but since it gets more money, the contractor is deliberately making maximum culvert.
