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| PDP wants probe in recurring Kishtwar mishaps | | | Early Times report
Kishtwar, May 6- Demanding constitution of a commission of experts to conduct survey to identify vulnerable points on the roads of erstwhile Doda districts where mishaps have become routine affair, the PDP has called for strict action against the government officials for dereliction of their duties which led to the gruesome calamity in Kishtwar on Monday.
A deputation of the PDP leader led by party secretary and MLC Sayed Asgar Ali and party candidate for Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha seat Thakur Balbir Singh today called on Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar and demanded probe into the tragic road accident at Bhanderkot on Monday in which 30 innocent people lost their lives. “The tragic road accident was result of the callousness and indifferent attitude of those who are the helm of the affairs”, PDP leader Asgar Ali said and demanded that responsibility should be fixed on those officials who has failed to perform their duties in checking over-loading and plying of defective vehicles on the roads.
PDP deputation strongly demanded that teams of experts should be given the responsibility of singling out the accident prone vulnerable spots on the roads of erstwhile Doda district. PDP leaders pointed out that road from Kishtwar to Palmar where tragic road accident took place, has been handed over the NHPC but the NHPC has not shown any interest to improve condition of the road. They demanded that this road should be handed over the Roads and Building Department so as to repair the poorly maintained roads.
Drawing attention of the authorities towards shortage of passenger vehicles in this area, PDP leaders strongly demanded deployment of 25 seater mini-buses of the State Road Transport Corporation to solve problem of the commuters. They alleged that with the connivance of the authorities untrained operators have been driving passenger vehicles in Kishtwar and Doda districts and these operators have been playing with lives of the people. Most of the passenger vehicles plying on the roads are defective and out-dated.
They further demanded immediate withdrawal of all condemned and old passenger vehicles plying on the roads of erstwhile Doda district to avoid re-occurrence of such of mishaps in future.
Earlier, PDP leaders visited houses of all deceased persons and expressed their condolences with the bereaved families. PDP leaders termed Monday accident as cold blooded murder due to the negligence of the authorities. PDP leaders demanded Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia each for the families of deceased passengers.
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