Ensure uninterrupted power, supply of essentials during the Holy month of Ramadan: Sajjad Shaheen 

Conducts an extensive tour to Gool-Sangaldan areas;

BANIHAL, March 12: National Conference (NC) leader and district president Ramban Sajjad Shaheen has urged the LG lead administration to make all adequate arrangements including uninterrupted power and water supplies for ensuing the holy month of Ramadan in district Ramban including Gool and Sangaldan. 

During his day-long extensive tour to Gool, Sandaldan, Kaintha and Harog on Monday, Shaheen met scores of people and also interacted with party workers. The locals apprised him about the dilapidated condition of  roads, erratic power supply in far-off areas besides lack of health care facilities in their villages.

The people also complained about the scarcity of drinking water in several villages and demanded Construction of Sub-district hospital building at Gool and immediate construction of a bridge at Chapran Nallah.

Shaheen also underlined the need for the constitution of special market checking squads to keep the check on profiteering, hoarding and black-marketing and also asked the district and the local administration to ensure strict implementation of government approved rate lists. 

Shaheen further demanded that the district  and Tehsil level authorities must ensure availability of essential commodities in the market including vegetables and poultry besides timely supply of gas, Kerosene, flour and sugar from the government depots to the consumers.

Shaheen further stressed on the need for uninterrupted power and water supply across the district particularly far flung areas of all the Tehsils of Banihal, Khari ,Ramsoo,Neel, Pogal-Paristan and Ramsoo besides Ramban, Gool, Sangaldan , Batote, Sumar and other areas during the holy month of Ramadan particularly during Sehri and Iftaar time.

Later, Shaheen, accompanied by the party’s District President ST Cell and DDC Counselor, Gool Chowdhary Sakhee Mohammad, Senior Party Leader Haji Gulzar Ahmed Shan, Zonal Vice President Riyaz Ahmed Mir, along with Gulzar Ahmed Manhas, Choudhry Mohammad Iqbal, and other party functionaries, went to the residences of the two accident victims in Kentha, Gool, who recently died in a tragic road accident near Battery Cheshma, near Ramban, to offer condolences to the bereaved families. They also visited the residences of Late Abdul Samad Lohar, former party block president of Gool, and Mohammad Shafi Kumhar, party block president of Sangaldan, whose son and father had recently passed away due to brief illness ,respectively. They extended sympathies and solidarity with the families of the deceased and demanded immediate sanction of ex-gratia relief in favor of the next of those who died in the fatal road accident.