Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Aug 20: In order to provide road connectivity to rural and far flung areas of the Kathua Assembly Constituency, BJP State general secretary and MLA Kathua, Rajiv Jasrotia called on Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh here today and submitted detailed project report under BADP covering several difficulties being faced by far flung and particularly border area people of Kathua Constituency to him.
It may be recalled that strongly recommended letter by MoS in PMO & MP Dr. Jatendra Singh endorsing redressal of genuine issues in project report was also submitted to Union Home Minister for his timely consideration to deal with border area problems.
Jasrotia mentioned in the project report that Kathua Constituency linked with 2 National and 1 International border is facing severe connectivity problem. Both public in general and Army & BSF in particular defending the borders are facing many day-to-day problems in border area. Maintaining that roads known as life line of people are hallmark of development and most important means of communication in a country, He said that the prosperity of any area depends on a good network of roads. An area sans basic facilities of roads can never be called a developed area as such an area is inaccessible and no development is possible there. The other constituencies in Kathua district which borders Hiranagar and Samba Segments in West, Basohli and Kathua in South and East, Bani in North East and Udhampur and Jammu in North has a poor road network at present. Except few roads which pass through some areas of this hilly terrain Constituency, most of the roads have not been developed in this Constituency and are in dilapidated condition. The area has no easy accessible road network and people face many hardships in reaching their destinations.
This reveals how the successive Governments in general and coalition in particular have ignored this area, he regretted. People in border areas facing host of problems in this Constituency including power and water crisis, lack of medicare facilities, shortage of doctors and teaching staff in schools. As the area has a poor road network system, the employees posted in the Assembly Segment can’t reach their duties in time also. The people in the area are dependent on agriculture which is subservient to weather. If there is rain the crop can grow in the fields and if it is a dry spell the people can’t expect any thing from their land. The need of the hour is to provide best possible irrigation facilities to increase crop production and also in improving the economic condition of farmers, he added.
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