Bittu gives 72-hr ultimatum to govt to open underpass

The project was completed at a cost of Rs 37 crore but it missed multiple deadlines. It took more than three years for completion of this project. It was a project of the railway department and public works department (PWD). Earlier, the then PWD Minister Sharanjeet Singh Dhillon had alleged that the project was delayed because of vested interests of former union minister Manish Tewari.

However, Bittu denied these allegations and said that now it was up to the state government to inaugurate it.

“This is the height of apathy by the district administration that a facility which stands completed is not being offered to public just to take credit or gain some cheap political publicity,” said Bittu. “But why should public continue to suffer and be a mute spectator to bureaucratic whims?”

On the suggestion of MLA Bharat Bhushan Ashu, it was decided that if the underpass is not inaugurated in the next three days by the local government, the group of Congressmen led by Bittu and Ashu would throw open the underpass to public.

The Congressmen said with the inauguration of the underpass, the vehicular traffic on Pakhowal road and Ferozepur road would ease and the people living in these areas would heave a sigh of relief from traffic woes.