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| Kuntawara a forgotten village, patients carried in cots | | |  Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Jammu, Sep 4: Merely few kilometres away from the Jammu-Kishtwar National Highway, residents of Kuntwara area in Drabshallla tehsil are still living in a Stone Age.
The village having population of around 8000 is without a road and proper health facilities even in 21st century.
People shift the patients in wooden cots in absence of the road.
A video from Kuntwara area which went viral revealed that people were shifting a women in a wooden cot on foot and after carrying the cot for nearly 10-12 kms to nearest road side at Kandni, the people hired a private vehicle to shift the patient to District Hospital Kishtwar.
Locals told the Early Times that the work on Kuntwara road sanctioned under PMGSY was started some 15 years ago, but till date the project has not seen light of the day. “Due to non availability of roads, area faces lot of difficulties. It is not easy for any official to reach the villages of Kuntwara area due to tough and hilly terrain where one has to walk on Kaccha bridal paths.
When the road was sanctioned 15 years ago, the people of the area were hoping that their fortune might change, but the construction of the Kuntwara road got wrangled in the files, cost escalation and construction of a bridge over river Chenab stalled the entire process,” locals said.
They said that despite knocking every door they dind’t get any relief. “ Kuntwara village will cointinue to remain backward unless the area gets road connectivity,” locals added.
They said that the crippling health facilities in the area force people to shift patients to Kishtwar hospital for even minor ailments.
They said that the government schools in the area are in shambles as these lack f staff and infrastructure. “Despite area being so close to National Highway we have been left to fend on our own.” |
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