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Manmeet Singh Gill
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, November 29
Visitors at the Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs Memorial, Civil Hospital, here are a harried lot these days as the approach roads to it are blocked due to the ongoing shuttering work for the construction of bus shelters under the elevated road.
Residents said a narrow passage for two wheelers was there earlier, but it too had been closed. The visitors have to use the road from the Ram Bagh side which has a manned crossing on it.
As all the trains coming to or leaving the city have to cross this point, it remains closed for the most part of the day. “A passage for public was there on the side of emergency block but it was the least preferred entrance as people mostly preferred main gate. Now, the rush on the street leading to the emergency ward has been increased,” said a shopkeeper nearby.
Residents said the construction of the bus shelter should have been initiated in a phased manner so that people were not harassed. The hospital is visited by thousands of patients and their attendants on a daily basis. People say that the pace of the civil works is usually slow, so they fear that they will have to bear it for long. Even the commuters coming from the Ram Bagh side, who have to take the GT road below the elevated road, too are harassed amid no sign warning people of road closure ahead.
“Most of the people come to know of the road blockage only after coming to the point where the road has been blocked. It will be better if a warning sign regarding the road closure is put up near the entrance to road near old Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital,” said a resident.
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