{"id":27745,"date":"2026-08-12T00:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=27745"},"modified":"2026-08-12T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:48:18","slug":"macadamisation-works-resume-in-srinagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/macadamisation-works-resume-in-srinagar\/","title":{"rendered":"Macadamisation works resume in Srinagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Pace to pick up after Aug 15<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar, Aug 11:\u00a0<\/strong>President of Hot Mix Plant Owners Association (HMPO) Kashmir Bashir Ahmad Khan on Tuesday said that macadamisation works have resumed in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir with the pace expected to pick up further after August 15.<\/p>\n<p>Khan said the work has started in the summer capital, though it is currently progressing at a slow pace. \u201cWe hope the speed will increase in the coming days and will pick up further after August 15,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Khan said the recent meeting with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other officials was fruitful, adding that the association hopes the assurances given by the government will be adhered to. \u201cSome issues are still pending and we hope those will also be addressed. Once these issues are resolved, the work will be expedited after August 15,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>An official from R&amp;B told KNO that all approved macadamisation works have already been tendered and allotted. \u201cThe macadamisation has commenced in many areas of the Valley and is expected to be substantially completed within the next month, subject to weather conditions and availability of funds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pertinently, the macadamisation process had remained affected amid differences between contractors and hot mix plant owners over issues including pending payments, cost escalation and other matters<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pace to pick up after Aug 15 Srinagar, Aug 11:\u00a0President of Hot Mix Plant Owners Association (HMPO) Kashmir Bashir Ahmad Khan on Tuesday said that macadamisation works have resumed in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir with the pace expected to pick up further after August 15. Khan said the work has started in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27747,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27745\/revisions\/27747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}