Excelsior Correspondent
-Excelsior/ Amin War
Srinagar, Feb 6: The residents of Jawahar Nagar, Kursoo, Aikhrajpora and its adjoining areas today said the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) is unnecessarily harassing them and is not issuing them permission to construct their houses while influential people are illegally constructing huge shopping complexes in the area.
The residents said that more than 80 percent houses in the area were damaged in last year’s devastating floods and the SMC is deliberately not only delaying their permission for new constructions, but also harassing them on one pretext or the other.
While addressing a press conference, the residents said that they have been allotted plots for construction of houses in 1960’s, but today the same Government is not permitting them for construction of houses.
“We have been living in rented accommodations from last six months, because our houses collapsed or were declared unsafe,” Mehraj-ud-Din, President of the flood victim families said.
They accused the Government of partiality in the area. “Influential people constructed commercial complexes illegally with official patronage, while as, common people were not allowed to construct their houses,” they said.
They also said that SMC and concerned departments were not allowing them for column construction. “We also want Government should allow us to construct two plus storey houses,” they said.
The residents appealed the Governor and Central Government to look into their “genuine” issue, so that they would suffer further.
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