Handwara, Jan 11 (KNS): The residents of Ward No 5 in Bowan, Watsar area of Rajwar in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Saturday alleged that their area has been deprived of basic facilities.
The aggrieved residents told KNS that the village had no proper road connectivity and they are being forced to carry patients on shoulder for at least two kilometres to reach the hospital.
“The work on the road was started few years back under MGNEREGA, but has not been completed till now for the reasons best known to the authorities. This results in huge inconvenience to the people. In the absence of proper road, the school going children and elderly people face immense hardships,” they said.
Aijaz Ahmad, a local resident told KNS that besides roads, the area lacks potable drinking water facility and they are forced to consume contaminated water. “We fetch water from nearby streams and springs during summers, but in the winter they too dry up. Public Health Engineering (PHE) has failed to provide water supply to the area,” he rued.
Ahmad said the village comprises of 300 households and there is no health centre and the villagers have to walk miles to get treatment. The resident appealed the district administration to provide them basic facilities (KNS)