Sultanwind road cries for completion, motorists hit

Neeraj Bagga

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 22

The half-finished Sultanwind road, which is to be linked to the GT road, is causing difficulties to commuters. They demand the immediate completion of the road for trouble-free commuting.

The 1.5-km-stretch has been under construction for the last five years. The authorities after spreading gravel on the stretch about five years ago did not turn back to take a look, recalled Satinder Singh, a resident of the area.

The stretch without premix is being used by residents, commuters and students. It becomes slippery during and after rain, endangering the lives of commuters.

Notably, there are three schools, a post office, about 10 small residential colonies and some industrial units along the unfinished road stretch.

GS Bedi, office-bearer of the Sri Guru Nanak Gurpurab Committee, said the committee had been taking out a nagar kirtan on Guru Nanak Dev’s Parkash Purab with the help of SGPC, conducting lectures and kirtan contests among students of about 30 schools for the last more than 50 years.

This time there being the 550th Parkash Purb of Guru Nanak Dev, the committee was planning to organise seminars in different schools on the topics of Japji Sahib and Sikhi Sidhant, laid by our first Guru Sahib, and a written exam on Guru Nanak Dev’s teachings, apart from a nagar kirtan and a kirtan darbar.

One of the schools chosen this time to hold a seminar is Sri Guru Harkishan Senior Secondary Public School, situated at Sultanwind-GT road link road.

However, the deplorable condition of the road leading to the above said school, which is being attended by around 1,000 students, left the society members disappointed.

So, they shot off a communiqué to Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to get the road completed before the historic Gurpurb.