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Health Department pictures of villages without roads puncture development claims
Ghar Ka Bheedi!
6/14/2021 12:31:14 AM
Early Times Report

Srinagar, June 13: The recent pictures of health workers treading “tough terrains” in Jammu and Kashmir to administer Covid vaccines to people has brought in more criticism than appreciation, the drive was supposed to give.
Many of such pictures show the health workers in tough terrains ,walking through streams and crossing broken bridges or climbing uphill with no road network visible.
While the pictures were supposed to show that health workers are doing a challenging task, the pictures seem to expose that most of the government schemes have failed in J&K.
While the government has been claiming that road, power and water or bijli sadak and paani have reached almost all the villages in Jammu and Kashmir, the pictures of the health workers show that people in the Union Territory are yet to get even road connectivity.
Sources said the pictures of the health workers have become a “joke in the Civil Secretariat with many of the top ranking officials than to talk of public circles.”
“If one has to believe in the pictures of the health workers walking in tough terrains, we will have to say that all the government schemes like MNREGA which provide road connectivity to the people in rural areas have failed. But the reality is that leave apart road connectivity the government says every family even has access to electricity.
So which of the two should one believe in,” said some senior officials at the Civil Secretariat on the condition of anonymity.
“Does JK have no roads and do people live in primitive era? What do these pictures of health department want to show,” asked a senior official.
Sources said through such allegedly controversial pictures the authorities wanted to cover up the “negligence” that led to the highest mortality in Jammu.
It’s pertinent to mention that Jammu witnessed maximum mortality in the month of May 2021 alone, and remains the second -worst affected district with regard to the number of positive cases.
Till May end, Jammu witnessed 49395 cases, while Srinagar, on the other hand, recorded 63825 cases, highest in the UT.
The City of Temples crossed 1,000 casualty figure on May 26. Of the over 1,000 deaths in Jammu, 535 deaths took place in May alone.
In the first wave, Jammu had recorded only 478 deaths as compared to 536 in Srinagar that time.
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