{"id":188023,"date":"2025-11-15T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=188023"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:00:00","slug":"protest-in-rajouri-over-authorities-indifference-use-of-substandard-material-in-road-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/11\/15\/protest-in-rajouri-over-authorities-indifference-use-of-substandard-material-in-road-repairs.html","title":{"rendered":"Protest in Rajouri over authorities\u2019 indifference, use of substandard material in road repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-188024\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jammu: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), residents of Shahdra Sharief in Rajouri held a massive protest against negligence of authorities and the use of poor quality material in ongoing repair works.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, protesters assembled in large numbers, raising slogans demanding accountability and immediate intervention from senior officials. They said that the local administration and the Public Works Department were using substandard material in the ongoing macadamization of the link road in the area, putting public safety at risk.<\/p>\n<p>They said that despite multiple complaints, no proper inspection has been conducted by higher authorities, allowing the use of shoddy work to continue unchecked. Residents pointed out that black-topping of the road had begun only a day earlier, yet the surface started deteriorating immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters demanded stringent action against the responsible officials and contractors, including halting all payments related to the current work, cancellation of the contract, and an independent inquiry to fix responsibility for the use of substandard material.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators warned that if their demands are not addressed promptly, they will escalate their agitation in the coming days, holding authorities fully accountable for their indifference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), residents of Shahdra Sharief in Rajouri held a massive protest against negligence of authorities and the use of poor quality material in ongoing repair works. According to Kashmir Media Service, protesters assembled in large numbers, raising slogans demanding accountability and immediate intervention from senior officials. They &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-188023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protests-activities","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/18.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188026,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188023\/revisions\/188026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}