Srinagar March 26:(KNS) The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today said that J&K is in deep crisis and the party has to live up to the expectations of people by walking shoulder to shoulder with them during the prevailing situation.

 

He said this while presiding over a meeting of workers and party functionaries of Block Amira Kadal here at the party headquarters Nawa-e-Subha, Srinagar. Among others Provincial Women's wing President Er. Sabiya Qadri and Block President Amira Kadal Rafiq Elahi were also present on the occasion. 

 

Addressing the functionaries, Nasir said that besides ferrying planeloads of central ministers, foreign delegations over a weekend and having a few road-shows run by bureaucrats , the incumbent government has done nothing substantial to give a flip to the existing education, health care, and road infrastructure. 

 

“Not even a single unit of electricity was added to the regional energy pool. No new irrigation, water supply scheme, and lift irrigation project has surfaced in Kashmir since 2016, the situation post 2019 is particularly appalling. All the major connectivity, sanitation, transport, health, education projects and welfare schemes initiated by the successive NC governments have been stalled. All the much touted projects, with the ready example of the ring road, metro train, and Jhelum flood mitigation and dredging plans are yet to translate into reality. Much of what was promised while marketing the August 2019 decisions has not translated into reality. What little was done in the name of the development by painting city walls, roads and poles has also drawn flack. Artists and laborers who were employed for the work have been wandering from pillar to post to get their dues. Except for changing stripes amongst themselves, the officials have done nothing to provide respite to the people,” he said adding, “The painted portions of the road were barricaded with much discomfiture to the commuters. Thanks to the inclement weather of Kashmir and its rains, the paintings vanished and barricades were subsequently lifted."

 

“The recruiting agencies JKSSB, JKPSC are working at snail's pace and far from catering to the employment needs of our educated and skilled youth.”

 

Rhetoric mongering, window dressing and hollow fanfare, Nasir contended are the star attractions of the incumbent J&K and union government. “Development is visible only on papers. Our artisans, transporters, hawkers, laborers, agriculturalists, horticulturalists have been left high and dry. Our cities, towns, and villages have become bywords of underdevelopment, administrative inertia, unemployment, and official apathy,” he added.(KNS)