 Early Times Report
Jammu, July 18: The administration is virtually missing from the ground in Jammu city. That's the impression one gets while travelling through the winter capital of the state.
If in one area people are struggling for clean drinking water or uninterrupted electricity in this scorching heat, in another area sewerage water is entering into residential houses. There's a common thread in both situations, though: the authorities concerned appear to have gone into hibernation.
In Trikuta Nagar Extension, the problem of sewerage water is so severe that people have closed main gates of their houses permanently.
The owner of house number 111, Sector 2A Trikuta Nagar, has in fact raised a brick boundary behind the gate to block entry on sewerage water. Another house owner, Jagdish Chander Gupta (house number 114) has also raised a boundary wall to stop the sewerage water.
The residents say they have time and again visited the offices of the authorities concerned and raised the issue of sewerage water. "Our umpteen visits to the offices concerned have failed to move the officials. They did not even pay a visit to our area to get a first-hand account of the situation, not to speak of ending our miseries," the residents said. |
