If anything runs as a common thread in almost all the infrastructural projects in Kashmir, it is the extension of deadlines – one after another and then many more. We keep counting till we even forget that the project had a deadline. We still remember this newspaper doing story after story on the long delays in the completion of the Jehangir Chowk-Rambagh flyover. It had then become a joke that the time for government projects is not calculated in terms of months and years but generations. So what could start in your lifetime can be thrown open for your grandchildren only.

Even after a lot of criticism on this count, government seems to have decided not to change. Only last year we had an accident in which a boat capsized and we lost precious lives, including some students. At that time w

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