People craving for drinking water, power supply under present regime: Rattan Lal
Says LG Admin has failed to address people’s issues
SAMBA, DEC 21: Rattan Lal Gupta, Provincial President Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) has asserted that the Lt Governor’s Administration has miserably failed to address people issues with all the schemes of central having proved to be a hoax. He castigated the J&K Government for plunging the people of Jammu and Kashmir into a hell of miseries by adopting anti-people policies. He said that Jammu and Kashmir is today facing the worst power and water crisis ever witnessed post-independence. He said that the situation has become utterly hopeless in this regard during the past eight years of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule and people are feeling disgusted with the ongoing misgovernance in which the interests of the bureaucrats have accorded top priority with the common man left to fend for himself.
The senior NC leader expressed this while addressing a meeting of National Conference workers held at village Sungwali, a Kandi belt of district Samba.
Rattan Lal Gupta asserted that it is an irony of the people of J&K that while the Government continues making tall claims regarding success of ‘Har Ghar Jal’ programme ensuring tap water to every household, the ground situation reveals that majority of people are facing the worst water crisis with the water being supplied hardly once in fifteen days. He alleged that hundreds of crores have been spent under Jal Jeevan Mission and still the people are suffering. The intensity of the crisis can be well gauged from the fact that in certain areas people have been forced to consume water from a local ponds in absence of tap water this fiddling with their health besides risking their lives, he added.
The Provincial President lamented that on one hand BJP Government at the Centre is celebrating 75 years of Amrit Mahotsav but at the same time on the other hand people in Jammu region are struggling to survive amid due to shortage of even the basic amenities other, not to talk of other facilities.
The NC leader said that the malafide intentions of the BJP Govt stand revealed from the fact that NC Govt had far back initiated the works of water supply schemes besides construction of dug well in the area but the incumbent regime failed to complete the aforesaid work thus resulting consumption of contaminated water from the ponds.
Rattan Lal Gupta appealed to the people of the area to strengthen the hands of Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah to get out from the miseries being faced by them and also for equitable development in Jammu and Kashmir.
Vijay Lochan, Provincial President NC (SC) Cell Jammu, in his address, said is the six hours power-cut a day the hallmark of the so called good governance of which the J&K Administration has been making tall claims. He said that people have been forced to suffer on account of basic amenities and they are going to teach the BJP a lesson at appropriate time.
NC Senior Vice President Central Zone, Mahinder Singh while addressing the workers said that Samba and Kathua districts stand totally ignored on development front while the position of drinking water supply is far from satisfaction. He said that BJP miserably failed to fulfill its promise to provide water at every household in the region.
Pardeep Bali Provincial Secretary Jammu, Chander Uday Singh, Joint Secretary Central Zone; Krishan Dutt District President SC Cell Samba and Sudagar Chand District President Samba also spoke on the occasion.
