Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 16: Questioning the Government claims on development of Srinagar city, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) today said under the present dispensation, the capital city has witnessed a total reversal of planned development process and it has been left to the whims and political priorities of a few ruling politicians.
In a statement the party chief spokesperson Naeem Akhtar said the NC has historically curtailed the development vision of the residents of Srinagar through their emotional exploitation which has reduced the once most glorious habitation of the region to an urban disaster.
The spokesperson said even though cities and towns through out the country benefited from the JNNURM for upgrading civic amenities especially the drainage and sewerage, Srinagar has failed to even make a beginning as a result of the inefficiency and lack of political direction. Even the Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded prestigious projects for reconstruction has been derailed which could have contributed significantly to the sanitation to the city.
In many areas of Shaher-e-Khas the stink which is attributed to the Achan dump has made life impossible. Achan he said has become a gold mine for some politicians patronizing land mafia and themselves owning huge estates around it.
Demanding chemical examination of the water coming out of the STPs Akhtar said that there are reports that none of these is working upto the desired standard. He said while the city waste continues to go into Dal almost untreated as a result of defunct STPs a politician has promoted illegal and unauthorized constructions all around the lake from Nowpora to Saidakadal.
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