Almost a year since the Alai chairlift incident, there is still no verdict on dozens of chairlifts in KP.
Alai Tehsil of Butgram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where 7 students and a local citizen were trapped in a chairlift for 16 hours on the morning of August 22 last year, all the people were rescued but after that questions were raised about chairlifts across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
On August 22, 2023, the chairlift accident in Alai Tehsil of Butgram district shocked the government and the administration. After the incident, roads and bridges were not constructed for the people of the hilly areas of Hazara Division, but 55 chairlifts were constructed across the division. The immediate closure orders have caused severe hardship to the public.
Dozens of chairlifts are still closed in the hilly areas of Hazara division due to non-issue of SOPs by the government. Residents do not have the facility of an alternative road despite the chairlifts being closed, due to which the journey of a few minutes turns into hours. is determined.
In difficult areas, the journey of minutes by chairlifts started to take 10 to 15 hours by walking through the mountains and valleys, bringing children to school and patients to hospital has become like bringing lions, the people living in the mountains say. Where there are no roads, chairlifts are a lifeline.
Citizens have appealed to the government to immediately issue SOPs to allow local level chairlifts to operate for the convenience of the public or provide alternative means to save people's lives from hours of agony. small
