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| Dug out lanes, dilapidated drains create mess in Bahu Fort area | | Residents accuse leaders of apathy | |  Earrly Times Report
jammu, Aug 4: The residents of Bahu Fort criticized the department as well as the government for not addressing their civic problems as the entire area has been facing problems due to dilapidated lanes which were dug out for laying sewerage pipe line.
Continuing his mass contact programme, Munish Gupta, Editor Early Times, who would be contesting upcoming assembly elections as an independent candidate from Gandhi Nagar constituency interacted with the residentof Bahu Fort area. "Sewerage line work was started in the beginning of this year and the lanes were dug out in entire area but after lying down the pipes the lanes were not repaired. Moreover, the people throw garbage in the drains which has blocked the flow of the water which comes back. Plying vehicles is is a difficult job and taking them to house. Even moving in the night is very risky and there is every chance of falling off. With the construction of lanes, the drains also suffered damage and dirty water of households has been overflowing. The lanes are not cleaned by the concerned authority," said KS Jastoria, SD Gupta, RK Raina, Shelja, Ajit Kumar, Sonali.
The residents are also facing problems due to erratic power supply in the area. "The power supply play hide and seek in entire day making our life miserable," said Rita
While raising issue of non enrollment in voter list, Brinda Devi said that they are trying hard to get their names in voter list but till date their names have not be included in list.
Raising their serious concern, the residents said that their is no disposal point of drain water and the same is being discharged into land of some residents. "The dirty water is being discharged in private land which has made it useless. "The water get collected near our houses and during rain the this dirty water entered into our house. It takes around week to dry up the water creating filth and smell all around. We get fall ill due to disease caused from this smell, filth and have to spend alot of money on medicines ," said Rajinder Kumar, Rekha, Santosh, Poonam.
Lashing out at PDD, Ganga Ram said that PDD has placed its HT poles in his house premises. "Poles of HT Line have been installed in my house. I told PDD to remove it didn't listen to my plight. Department told us to provide another place for its realignment," he said.
An elderly woman of the area, Pushpa Devi has been facing difficulty in earning a livelihood."I have no source of income and I applied for Old Age Pension and initially I got few installments but later my pension was stopped due to unknown reasons. After that I started working Government school as a cook for mid day meal and for that i am paid Rs 900 but this amount is not paid regularly due to which i had to face huge difficulty for making both end meets," she said.
Narrating his woes , Raj Singh Charak said : "It has been 28 years working in Floriculture Department as daily wager but till date my service has not been regularized.
I am living in very tough time as I have three children and facing lot of difficulty in their upbringing. Many employees have been regularized in the department till date but my case has not been cleared by the department. Every time department raise some objection on my file" |
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