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Early Times Report
KISHTWAR, Aug 10: Shakir Siddiqui, Prominent Social activist and President Public Awareness Front (PAF) Kishtwar has expressed anguish over ever increasing and deepening drinking water crises in Kishtwar town and Mandal area.
Siddiqui said that present dispensation has done nothing to combat this problem and added that since his childhood, the present generation has been listening about Naigad water supply scheme, but same has never seen a day light in last four decades. He said that there is only one filter plant in the District for providing safe potable water to the ever suffering population of Kishtwar town, Mandal, but said that it is a bitter reality that the people of Kishtwar town and mandal never get filtered water as the present plant is defunct and worn-out.
He said that all the villages in the periphery of Kishtwar are crying day and demanding sufficient drinking water but no one listens to them. Saddiqui said that in rainy season people get muddy water full of insects, small snakes and earthworms.
He said that there was apprehension of breaking out of an epidemic in the entire district. He said that people of the area are prone to water borne diseases and demanded that civil administration is least bothered about the issue. He demanded expediting of work on war footing to bring water from Naigad to Kishtwar.
He also held hydraulic division Kishtwar responsible for poor distribution system thus making the life of people difficult. Siddiqui further said that people of the area have now lost their patience and urged up on the people irrespective of their political affiliation, religion, caste and creed to use their influence to pressurize to authorities at the helm of the affairs so that this genuine demand of Kishtwar is conceded at an earliest.
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