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| Residents criticize MC Kathua | | | Early Times Report
Kathua, Feb 13: Despite living in the limits of Municipal Council, the residents of Ward number 16, Shiva Nagar are living in the unhygienic surroundings, as they do not have any other option. Be repentant over the lethargic attitude of the administration and local representatives, the residents said that besides repeated requests their demands are still at large. "We have been living over in the colony since for the last twenty years, yet you won't find a single lane constructed with proper drainage. All the drains of colony are chocked & filled with silt due to which waste water overflows & flows into the houses of public and causing huge loss to the property," said Pawan Singh. Lamenting the apathetic attitude of the administration, Nirmal Devi said that instead of constructing house at village we constructed it in city, with a mind that the facilities are more and better in cities. It proves to be an illusion as they are facing hardships over here due to the lack of facilities. "We do not have proper and maintained streets. The lanes are still half way constructed with no drainage system", she miffed. Charging the local representatives for turning a Nelson's eye towards their hardships Sushma said, "Dilapidated streets make people hard to pass through, vehicles split stones when they pass by, water of houses flows in the middle of streets without any direction. All these things are enough for creating unhygienic surroundings," she rues. Miffed over the Municipal Council another habitant Kanta Devi said we are bound to live in unhygienic surroundings created due to overflowing of the drains and failure of Municipal Council to keep the locality clean. "We don't have any other option expect to accept the reality", she irked.
"As we do not have any political or effective approach, no one cares of them. Many a times we had requested the council officers and the administration too, they always turn a deaf ear to their demands", said Pooja of the colony. "Government is all responsible for ignoring the chronic problem in the area despite bringing it in the notice of the authorities several times", she rued.
Sunita verma said it is not only the matter of lanes and drains, Municipal Council not even bother to clean this area. Besides living in the municipal area, you will not find any sweeper of council, no dust bins are revising and no arrangement of streetlights. "Government is all responsible of ignoring the chronic problem in the area despite bringing it in the notice of the authorities several times", she alleges. Another local resident, seema sharma said we are supposed to live in the foul smell of drains. Due to the unhygienic conditions of the locality, our relatives too avoid to visit our houses. It is very difficult to for us to live in such conditions, then, just think how their relative feels. Not this only but due to dilapidated streets and potholes filled with water pedestrians especially children and adults too feel hard to pass through.
Whereas preeti of the same locality added that due to unhygienic surroundings, we people could not think of fresh air in our houses, for our doors and windows always remain closed to avoid foul and filthy smell. Neither administration nor Municipal Council bothers to take care of them. Asserting the local administration for turning a deaf year towards their problem, Anita Rani said that time and again, the people stages protests, besides this they also apprised the district administration about the problem but all in vain. "The people of the area are not demanding something impossible, we are just asking the administration of early construction of lanes and drains along with the proper arrangements of cleanliness and street lights", she added. Trishla devi said that despite repeated pleas, the officials of the Municipal Council failed to undertake any repair or construction work of the streets of their locality. "We submitted several representations with the senior functionaries of the Department, but they failed to do anything substantial in this regard," she regrets. |
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