Summary
Calling into question the continuation of rock cutting work along Banihal- Ramban portion of Srinagar- Jammu National Highway, a high-level expert panel set up by the NHAI has come up with a slew of interim measures to minimise the threat of landslides which frequently shut the vital road.
In its report, the team comprising Dr RK Bhandari, ex-Director CSIR-Central Building Research Institute; Prof DN Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; and AK Srivastav, former Additional Director General, Ministry of Road Transport and Highway, has called for an all-out effort on war-footing to deal with the problem of landslides and meet “foreseen emergencies for ......