Chitral -- The residents of Chitral town, rather the whole district, who are end users of the Chitral bazaar bypass road have out-rightly rejected the new plan by the C&W department to construct an unnecessary bridge at the same place in addition to the already existing 36 ft wide bridge on the bypass road over the Chitral gole.

 Our correspondent while standing on the existing bridge asked over two dozen passer byes both on foot and in vehicles having different educational and social status crossing the bridge, if they were in favour of having another bridge alongside the existing bridge. Not a single person supported the idea. In fact all said it was an exercise in ill-will and an excuse to gobble down government money. In fact one pedestrian let loose a volley of curses on the concerned department and said "what is wrong with this bridge, why do they want to eat up government money, they think we are fools and idiots and don't understand that there is 80 percent commission in a bridge". One gentlemen said, "we always wake up when the damage has been done, only to regret and fret about it,  this is the first time that we are resisting a wrong from happening in the beginning  and this is good augury for the future of Chitral".