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| Taps running dry, school children use nallah water | | People forced to drink filthy water in Pattan | |  Early Times Report
Baramulla, Apr 18: At a time when Government claims to be spending crores of rupees on providing safe drinking water to people across state , people in many villages where people are forced to drink filthy and un hygienic water.
Details available with Early Times reveal that in Hanjeevera and Gund e Ibraheem villages of Singhpora block of Pattan in North Kashmir's Baramulla district people have no facility of safe drinking water with the result people are forced to drink muddy and filthy water available in the local nallah. Locals say that drinking water is hardly available in these villages and that is the main reason people use water from nallah.
Due to continuous rainfall from last several weeks the water in nallah has become muddy , and people have no other option other than using this muddy water.
Early Times reporter on Monday visited Hanjeevera and Gud e Ibraheem Villages. As per ground report filed by the reporter the school children of Govt Middle School Hanjeevera were using filthy water available in the local nallah for drinking purposes. When contacted local teachers , they said that water hardly comes in the public post available near the school. The villages located around Pattan have reported several cases of Jaundice and other water borne diseases from last several years , but inspite of that authorities are least bothered to address the issue.
Few years back scores of inhabitants of Sultanpur village in Pattan slowly succumbed to water-borne diseases by consuming polluted water. The water is supplied from a wetland by Public Health Engineering department directly to residents without filtration or any other process resulting in numerous unreported deaths in this north Kashmir village named Sultanpur after Raja Sultan. Located between Sumbal and Pattan townships, this village, also known as Khuee, is 38 kilometers from Srinagar. The inhabitants recollect names of those dead on their fingertips and count figures who may succumb in future unless government intervenes to save lives of hundreds others. According to medical reports, many people in this area are suffering from liver complications.
Hamida Wife of Ghulam Ahmad Hajam R/O Nopora , Gund e Ibraheem Pattan while talking to Early Times reporter said that she was forced to pay Rs 1500 as bribe to PHE employees for laying of water pipeline upto her house. " I had to break open the piggy bank of my kids to give the bribe to some local elders who paid the amount to PHE employees, but inspite of that safe drinking water still remains a dream for me " Hamida added. |
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