Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 2: Residents of Kalidhar village on Jammu outskirts staged a protest on Sunday against the inability of the government to provide their hamlet with road connectivity.
Scores of people of Kalidhar near Choki charo assembled in the village and raised slogans like “Sadak do, pani do, hamari mangay poori karo.”
Protesters said that they would not cast their votes till their village gets the road connectivity. “Politicians make a beeline during elections to seek votes and make tall promises but once the elections are over they disappear from the scene.
This time we have decided that we will boycott the elections and won’t vote for any party,” protesters said.
They said that whenever anyone falls sick or any woman has to deliver a baby he/she are taken to the hospital on a charpai.
“Even after 75-years of independence we are struggling for basic amenities.
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>Find it difficult to get their children married
> Have to carry patients to hospital on charpais
>Women walk through dense forest to reach schools, colleges
Protesters said, “People from other areas don’t want to either take our daughters as brides or want to get their daughters married to the boys from our village. They ask us to build a house near a roadside then think about getting our daughters or sons married.”
The protesters said that young girls have to walk through a dense forest to reach their schools, colleges and work places.
“The track through the forest is unsafe and men have to accompany their daughters and sisters to schools and colleges,” they added.
“ Our earnest appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi an Union Minister for Roads and Highways is to provide road connectivity to our village.
Till date many governments have come and gone but no one has fulliled its promise of conneting our village with the mainland through a road,” protesters said. | 