Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, July 31: National Conference (NC) held a massive protest rally in Vijaypur today against failure of the PDP-BJP Government on deliverance front and mitigating the problems arising out of erratic power and drinking water supply, dilapidated roads, malfunctioning of utility services, availability of sub-standard rations at the Government depots, worse condition health and hygiene in the constituency.
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“The Government is missing on ground-zero and the people have to go nowhere to seek redressal to their accumulated problems during the past nearly three years”, former Minister and senior State vice president NC, Surjeet Singh Slathia said while addressing the rally that started from Gurah Morh and culminated at Vijaypur.
Slathia expressed concern over hugely erratic power supply, saying this has impacted the water supply as well, as a result of which the people of the entire Constituency are made to fend for themselves during the ongoing monsoon season. He said the water logging due to incessant rains is adding up to the woes of people with most of the areas getting inundated and bumpy and patchy roads exposing commuters and the road users to risk. “This is perpetual problem, as the Government has not learned lessons from monsoon wrath in the past few years”, he said and added that due to absence of any exigency plan, the situation becomes beyond control at times. He decried the Government for remaining mute spectator during the contingencies like flash floods and said that no agency feels it obligatory to come to the rescue of people at crucial times or provide some sort of succour to the sufferers.
The former Minister said due to lack of political direction and infighting between the coalition partners as a result of their inherent contradictions, the administration seems to be unbridled that is a cause of concern for people whose grievances remain unresolved. In this context, Slathia referred to denial of sugar to the rationees for the past several months, saying the scarce rations available at the Government depots are mostly not fit for human consumption.
Slathia expressed dissatisfaction over steps taken by the administration in combating price rise or making utility services functional to the satisfaction of people. “The health and hygiene has become a big causality due to administrative apathy”, he added.
Slathia and other NC leaders brought the issues of immense public importance to the notice of District Development Commissioner Samba Sheetal Nanda, who was present along with district officers of various departments and engineering wings. He hoped the district administration to come to the rescue of the people even as the PDP-BJP Government had preferred to remain mute spectator.
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