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| Even after 7 decades of independence road yet to come up in some wards of Pouni | | |  Ajay Sharma
Early Times Report
REASI, July 24: For the past seven decades or so the road connectivity in the country has progressed by leaps and bounds, but it has not made any difference for the people living in a village in the Pouni tehsil of this district.
The people living in the three wards of Sadeen village in the Kothian Sadeen Panchayat are for the past so many years waiting for the road that would connect with Kothian. These people are perplexed since they are facing huge problems in carrying out their daily chores of life.
“It is highly unfortunate that wards 6, 9 and 10 have been left out of road network coverage in our area. These wards are spread over a length of two and half kilometers and the road is yet to come up. Successive governments have failed and same is the true about the present dispensation of Jammu & Kashmir,” said residents while sharing views with Early Times.
Since most of the people living in these three wards are poor they cannot afford their own transport and move towards the villages as well as blocks of this district. These people have to face vagaries of weather and the problems get compounded during the rainy season when it becomes difficult to move about.
“It is an irony that despite living in a far flung area we have been deprived of the backward status. If we are not backward then we ought to be forward, but for that it is important that there is a proper network of developed roads. Unfortunately our pleas have fallen on deaf ears and we have been denied of a proper road,” said the Sarpanch of Kothan Sadeen Panchayat.
The Sarpanch said that sometime back the eight kilometer road from Kothian to Sadeen was supposed to be developed under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY). He said the road was developed for five and half kilometers and the remaining length covering the three wards was left unattended.
When contacted Executive Engineer Roads & Bridges (R&B) Reasi, Janak Raj said that a team of the department would visit the area and check the condition of road. He said that if there is feasibility the road would be developed in three wards of Kothian Sadeen Panchayat.
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