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| Residents of Lakad Mandi stage protest against PHE, facing water scarcity for 10 days | | Block Janipur-High Court road to register protest | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, June 15: The residents of various localities of Ward No 36 today blocked Janipur-High Court road with empty water pitchers protesting against severe drinking water crisis and administrative apathy. The protesting residents including women raised slogans against the Jal Shakti Department and district authorities.
Corporator of Ward No 36, Subash Sharma, who was leading the protest, said that the residents of Lakar Mandi, Bhawani Nagar and Indira Colony were facing acute shortage of drinking water for the last 10 days thus forcing the locals and particularly women to face hardship.
He further alleged that despite repeated requests to the Jal Shakti Department officials, nothing has been done to assuage the woes of the residents.
“We are forced to sit on the road as a mark of protest against officials of the Jal Shakti Department who have remained callous. We understand that sitting on the road amid the Corona pandemic is full of risk to catch infection but we have no other option and we don’t want our children to die out of thirst,” Subash said. He said since the last three years after the flood all the water pipes are damaged and despite the assurance of then divisional Commissioner Jammu that the old pipes are replaced nothing has been done till date.
“The then Advisor K.K Sharma sanctioned funds of Rs 8.70 crore for development of infrastructure to redress the water scarcity in the area but the department failed to use the funds and change the old and damaged pipes,” he said . |
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