Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Sept 14: Urging coalition regime to ensure water and power supply in Kandi belt of Kathua district, Congress leader and Member of the Legislative Council (MLC), Thakur Balbir Singh today regretted that authorities have failed to repair pumping stations of PHE and transformers of PDD, which got damaged in recent rainy season.
Addressing public meetings at Bhiya and Mela villages of Hiranagar Assembly segment, Balbir Singh expressed his anguish that even for basic amenities like power and drinking water, people are forced to adopt agitational means because those at the helm of the affairs are not serious to ensure supply of such amenities. “Causal approach of the authorities to ensure supply of drinking water in the Kandi area can be gauged from the fact that large number of pumping stations, which were damaged in the month of July, are yet to be repaired so people have to cover long distances to foot to fetch water to quench thirst”, Singh said and pointed out that even after passing two months authorities have failed to restore water supply in number of Kandi villages.
He said that same is the situation of power in this belt because transformers, which got damaged during the summer and rainy season, are yet to be repaired. He observed that authorities are not taking residents of Kathua seriously and depriving them of basic amenities.
Later, interacting with residents of border areas, Singh regretted that promise of BJP to provide alternative land to the border residents confined only to the papers. He recalled that during Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in 2014, BJP leadership had promised to provide alternative land to the border residents at safer places but nothing has been done so far. Singh told that during his meeting, as member of the Congress delegation which called on Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at Jammu on September 12, he had strongly taken up issue of border areas. He said demand of alternate land for border residents was put before the Union Home Minister.
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