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| Harsh Dev mocks at BJP's assertions over water, power scenario | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 1: "Having failed to come up to the expectations of the people even with respect to provision of basic amenities, like potable drinking water and power, the BJP govt was indulging in false rhetoric and misleading campaigns only to conceal its failures".
This was stated by Harsh Dev Singh Chairman-JKNPP and former Minister while addressing delegations of villages lower Mada, Satyalta, Dhandhal, Prowa, Kaghote, Bhatyari etc. who had called on him at Udhampur today and apprised him about the acute water and power crisis faced by them in their respective villages.
Pointing towards the statements and tweets of the central BJP leaders and its Ministers regarding 100% electrification and water supply, Singh said that such utterances had only evoked cynicism amongst the masses and exposed the saffron leaders for their politics of descent and subterfuge. He said that while statements of achieving cent percent coverage of rural households under Rural Electrification Scheme (RES) continued to be made during the last six months, the UT govt and central Ministers had only recently claimed to have achieved 100% coverage of all schools and Anganwari centres under Tap water supply scheme. "Such statements were not only absurd but also demonstrated the extremely casual approach of the helmsman towards the vital concerns of the poor people inhabiting the far-flung areas". Has any functionary of the govt bothered to visit the affected areas before giving such feedback to their seniors in the govt, questioned Singh. And while the govt functionaries and the mandated leaders and Ministers were making such vague and nauseating statements from their Ac-rooms, the ground reality was altogether different with the people of J&K UT suffering the worst nightmares during the present regime due to non-availability of even the basic amenities particularly in far-flung areas", asserted Mr. Singh.
Harsh Dev said that during his successive tours of various remote and far-off villages of Chenani and Ramnagar constituencies, he had personally observed and experienced the problems of water and power in the said areas. Not only the schools were facing acute water supply problems but the village people were collecting rain-water in their utensils to quench their thirst. And despite repeated representations none had bothered to address the plight of the aggrieved people. Similarly several villages had been shown to have been covered under Tap water supply scheme without anything tangible appearing on the ground.
In the same way, asserted Singh, dozens of households in almost all of villages in the said constituencies had been left out of the electrification scheme and deprived of the benefits of the same despite loud sloganeering by the govt. In several cases, the electrification had been reduced to a mere formality with hardly any benefit having accrued to the people due to extremely low voltage. Further, there were cases where power tariff bills were being sent to households which had not been electrified at all. Unscheduled and frequent power cuts had further created massive resentment amongst the people with an apathetic regime averse to their woes and sufferings", maintained Harsh.
Castigating the BJP govt for its false narrative and deceptive propaganda, Singh called upon the Lt. Governor to ensure provision of basic amenities to people of UT on priority. |
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