Jammu, May 23 (KNS): Former Minister and Senior National Conference leader Mr Ajay Kumar Sadhotra Tuesday expressed serious concern over drinking water scarcity in the villages of Bhalwal area of the Jammu North Assembly Constituency, describing it as gross human rights violation and worst example of misgovernance.
"It is unimaginable even to think how people must be facing the situation without drinking
water in these scorching summer days for such longer durations", Mr Sadhotra said while interacting with the residents of Bhalwal at Mandi Bhalwal in Jammu North Assembly Constituency.
Taking jibe at the theme slogan 'Har Ghar Nal' of the BJP double engine government, Sadhotra said that the parody should be completed with the couplet by adding '20 din Baad Jal'. This is how the double engine governments create hypes over every issue but fail to deliver on ground zero.
They must understand that people cannot be fed with dreams and slogan anymore when even basics are not available to them.
He said the failure on all fronts have made the BJP leaders to stay indoors as they cannot face the people, he added. He said the BJP has mastered in telling lies and making tall claims.
Ajay Sadhotra took the administration head on for depriving the people from various utility services, especially the water and the power supply.
Due to erratic power supply, tap water gets hugely affected in all the areas like Raipur, Karwanda, Roopnagar, Janipur, Keran, Thathar,
Kanger, Chinore, Badani, Kalakam, Paloura, Muthi, Patoli and other villages but the situation in the Bhalwal area is all the more different.
The callousness of the concerned department has left the residents high and dry in literary sense of the term, he added.
The Former Minister urged the government to depute a team of officers to Block Bhalwal
for assessing the situation in the wake of acute water scarcity. The team should fix the
responsibility of the officers for the chaotic situation so that they are held accountable for making the residents to face the brunt of their insensitivity and non-performance, he said and urged the government to make the drinking water available in the Bhalwal area through tankers every day, till government takes remedial measures provide regular water supply to the inhabitants of Jammu North Assembly Constituency.
This should receive top attention of the government, which otherwise remains on tenter hooks to indulge in propaganda only, Mr Sadhotra added.
He said the divisional administration should show little bit of accountability particularly
in ensuring regulated drinking water and power supply.
Others who were present on the occasion are S/Sh Capt Purshotam Sharma, Ghar Singh Chib Corporator, Dr. Rajinder Sharma, Ch Subash Chander, Pandit Surinder Kumar, Principal Suresh Sharma, Gourav Singh Jamwal, Mohan Lal Verma.(KNS).