Srinagar, Jun 29 (KNS): Demanding rehabilitation, scores of families who were evacuated in the year 2012 from the embankment of river Jhelum here in Srinagar Saturday staged a protest against the government.

The families assembled at Press colony here and chanted slogans in favour of demands. The families assembled under the banner of Jhelum River House Rehabilitation Union (JRHRU).

The protesting families said that the government has utterly failed to fulfill its promises done with the people who were evacuated from the embankment of river Jhelum in the year 2012. “We were assured that we will be rehabilitated and land will be allotted to the evacuated families soon for the construction,” a protester said as per KNS Correspondent.

However, he said that over 100 families who were living on the embankment of river Jhelum from DC office to Fateh Kadal were ignored after being evacuated and promised of land has been left to lurch as nothing was done by the government so far.

The protesting families added that all the promises proved hoax on the ground.

Later, they appealed Governor Satya Pal Malik to look into the matter so that they could heave a sigh of relief. (KNS)