JHANG, June 5: Jamaat-i-Islami district amir Bahadur Khan Jhaggar has alleged that substandard material is being used in the construction of a bridge over the river Chenab near Chund Bharwana.

In a press statement issued here on Thursday, Mr Jhaggar claimed that the project manager of such an important civic task was a matriculate who lacked practical experience of supervising such a mega project.

“What he is good at is providing the commission to the National Highway Authority officials and getting the bills passed.” He further alleged that the highway officials hardly bothered to make a site examination of the project, and had left the project at the mercy of “inexperienced and corrupt men of the contractor”.

The JI representative said the contract of the project was awarded to a company as a ‘political bribe’ in violation of rules and the fact that the NHA had made such blunders in the past was an open secret.