Death dancing on the roads of Doda, Kishtwar

For the last couple of years death has been dancing on the roads of twin mountaneous districts Kishtwar and Doda. These rodas have become a virtual death trap affecting people of this region directly or indirectly. The people, politicians and intelligentsia may enumerate so many factors responsible for these large scale deaths which may range from out dated vehicle, over loading, unchecked trafficking of commercial commodities of many buses, lack of proper maintenance of vehicles and lack of driving skills on part of drivers, but the main reason for accidents like of Bandarkot, Premnagar and Assar remains the negligence on the part of GREFF authorities who are going on with the work of widening of these roads. During this year the tragic accidents have eaten away the bread earners of hundreds of families so far and there is likelihood of continuity of this process in near future also. Afterevery acident a lot of mind boggling is being done in all sections of society including the administration. But it is a general observation that the memory of the people is short lived and every one will forget the horrible scene of death, trauma of affected families. With every gruesome road accident the government promises some remedial measure. But it forgets the promise soon till another accident wakes it from the slumber.
Since January 2009 nearly 150 people have been killed in road accidents, but hardly a concrete step has been taken to arrest this mayhem. The locals are holding GREFF responsible for the bad deplorable condition of the roads which is also one of the cause of these accidents. It is pertinent to mention here that after every accident GREFF used to construct Paraped or used to fix iron garder at the place of accident like that of Warrah, thathri or Bhandarkot. But all is being donbe only after the accidents occur and no precaution is being taken prior to such Accidents.