Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, July 19: Latti Development Committee (LDC) has strongly pleaded for creation of separate Assembly constituency for Latti-Dudu-Basantgarh as this remote and backward area of district Udhampur has always remained neglected by the respective public representatives for the last many decades.
Chairman of the LDC, Kasturi Lal Gupta while projecting the sorry state of affairs in this mountainous sub region, having great tourism potential, said in a meeting that even after 72 years of Independence this area is being treated as orphan baby of the State Government. Worst is the condition of only fair weather single road connecting this area with the district headquarters. The people of Dudu and Basantgarh Sub Divisions and Latti Tehsil are deprived of basic facilities. There are many villages where no roads still exists. Many villages are facing power and water crisis.
The most unfortunate are the people from Latti and Dudu area who remained part of reserved Ramnagar constituency for long 35 years and were then connected with Chenani constituency which was again reserved after Ramnagar was opened about 21 years ago. They are now with the reserved constituency for the last more than five decades, for no fault of theirs but due to most unfair and bias decision of the bureaucrats or the other people in the politics at the helm of affairs during that time.
Worst is the health care scenario in the area as no doctor is available in most of the hospitals/ Health Sub Centres in the area. No tourism project was ever sanctioned for this area despite the fact that there is massive tourism potential. The water and power supply scenario is also very grim. There is need to monitor the activities in Govt offices in the entire area.
The LDC members urged upon the State Governor that in view of proposed delimitation of the Assembly constituencies, a new and separate Assembly constituency be created for the area from Maan Talai to Latti-Dudu and Basantgarh by combining nearly 32 Panchayats of this belt so that people of this area could get long awaited justice and fair treatment.
The members who attended meeting included Krishan Lal, Raj Mohd, Khalid Hussain, Shiv Ram, Govind Ram,Mohd Salim and others.
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