Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 20: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today expressed dismay over the paucity of essentials in Kashmir division saying the administration seems to have turned blind eye to the woes of people.
In a joint statement party senior leader Abdul Rahim Rather and State women’s wing president Shameema Firdous said that there was a crisis like situation in Kashmir province due to unavailability of the basic essentials and the administration has failed to live up to its obligation of ensuring people all basic civic amenities and essentials.
The leaders said the curtailment of the monthly ration to APL and BPL families has compounded the woes of people across Jammu and Kashmir in general but the people of Kashmir in particular due to the ongoing harsh winter season. “Administration has also failed to have an anticipatory price control mechanism in its strategy to deal with the exorbitant price rise during the winter months. The absence of administration on ground has emboldened the willfulness of traders and black marketers, they added.
“Unfortunately, the flying squads of the CAPD are also not visible on ground. The undergoing inflation of food, vegetables, and other items has inadvertently hit the pockets of the lower middle class and middle class evenly. We expect the administration to wake from the slumber and ensure that people don’t have to suffer any further. It is the primary duty of the administration to check price rise. In addition to that the divisional and the district administration should ensure sufficient stocks of all essentials including LPG, Kerosene at all district head quarters. Special teams should be deputed to snowbound far-flung areas across Kashmir division to review the stock situation there,” they said.
Drawing the attention of the administration towards the plight of people due to the prolonged and unscheduled power cuts, the leaders said that the power infrastructure which was disturbed due to weather vagary continues to be in shambles at various places particularly in far-flung areas of north, central and south Kashmir.”
They impressed upon the Divisional Administration to ensure speedy disbursement of enhanced compensation to snowfall affected people on immediate basis.
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