Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 2: Asserting that the State Government failed to provide basic amenities to the people like adequate electricity and drinking water supplies, former minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today said it was unfortunate that people were being subjected to load shedding of electricity for long hours.
Addressing the party workers at Narwal Bye-pass in Gandhi Nagar constituency today, Mr Bhalla said the Government has failed to provide basic amenities to the people. He slammed Govt for betraying again the people of Jammu province as there will not be summer secretariat functioning this year at Jammu. He said that such a move will force aggrieved people from Jammu region to go to Srinagar to get their works done.
It was during the time of Congress Govt in 2006 that a decision was taken to introduce the concept of winter capital and summer capital taking into account the needs of the people and their financial constraints and the fact that the State had two capitals, Jammu and Srinagar. The practice was followed during all these eight years between 2006 and 2014 without break, but all of sudden PDP-BJP Coalition doesn’t see any merit in this practice, Bhalla maintained.
Pointing towards power crises in Jammu region he said that when temperature is hovering over 45 to 47 degree Celsius, unscheduled power cuts has become a routine affair which is adding miseries to the people. While expressing his grave concern over mounting problems of the common masses, he said that due to its mis-governance this regime has lost its credibility. He took the Coalition Government to task for its failure to provide even ration to the people in the urban what to say of rural and remote belts.
Taking serious note of power crisis at a time when the heat wave is increasing day-by-day, Bhalla sought immediate intervention of Chief Minister to avert the crisis and provide relief to the people of the Jammu region by taking desired steps. He also stressed on conducting survey of the areas where transformers have been damaged and not repaired and replaced. The repair of transformers in private factories is held up due to payment issue and stressed that adequate funds be earmarked for the same as hampering of power supply is also affecting the water supply in those areas.
Raising question over irregular ration supply, Bhalla said that wheat, sugar and kerosene are the three items most people prefer to purchase from the PDS system. The PDS system which was aimed at poverty alleviation and to curb hunger in the lower classes of the society, but unfortunately with time India has changed, but the good old PDS remained the same.
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