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| NC has turned Srinagar city into world's fastest developing slum: Mehbooba | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Jan 28: Peoples Democratic Party president, Mehbooba Mufti, Saturday alleged that National Conference led government has turned the Srinagar city into the world's fastest developing slum.
Addressing the meetings of Zonal Committees of Hazrathbal, Sonwar and Zadibal constituencies, Mehbooba blamed NC of worsening economic, political and infrastructure condition of the capital city.
"Srinagar is turning into world's fastest growing slum because of government neglect while the ruling national conference doles out the haphazardly conceived works to its cadre in the name of development, only to provide them monetary benefits," she alleged.
Mehbooba said that lack of vision in the ruling party was the misfortune of Srinagar as the city now looks, centuries behind its counterparts in other states.
"National Conference has unfortunately taken Srinagar for granted and does not feel accountable to its residents as its leaders from the city know they are only beneficiaries of boycott politics and are not even concerned with the huge issues of development that city faces," the PDP president said.
Mehbooba alleged that the eight MLAs and a Member of Parliament from Srinagar allowed crores of rupees meant for development of the city besides Rs 48 crores under the Central Road Fund (CRF) to be diverted to other areas. "This atrocity was committed on the city with the approval of the chief minister Omar Abdullah who also holds the planning and R&B portfolios," she added.
The PDP president said that the city which is becoming home to numerous new entrants from rural areas and is also playing host to over a million tourists has stopped growing as modern centre.
She said the shelving of the IDB funded flyovers has frozen road expansion in the city with more and more bottlenecks being added to the system. "Unfortunately the chicken brained NC leaders mistake blacktopping of a few kilometers of road as modernization and development not realizing how cities in today's world are being developed," she said. "This is in spite of the fact that the chief minister and his senior ministers are frequent travelers outside the state and country and they never bring back any modern ideas to relieve their people of increasing commutation troubles."
Referring to the two major bottlenecks at the entry points of Panthachowk and Shalteng, Mehbooba said these have made journey to and from the city a nightmare for everyone. She said even after seven years the four laning of Srinagar Narbal road is nowhere near completion even though now even that might fall short of requirements. She said unless the government puts its act together in Srinagar and deals the city and its development with the seriousness and respect they deserve, quality of life for its people would continue to degrade.
The PDP President said even if the government only picked up the threads from where the previous government had left it and continued to work on projects started by it; the people could feel a difference.
The PDP president sought the cooperation of the people of Srinagar for strengthening the PDP so that a new era of change and development could be brought into the state. |
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