Pulse of valley stopped due to closure of highway: KTA

Srinagar, Jan 12 (KNS): Kashmir Trade Alliance (KTA) on Tuesday expressed grave concern over shortage of essential commodities and medicines in the valley as a result of closure of Srinagar-Jammu Highway.

KTA President Ajaz Shahdar appealed authorities to keep food, fuel, gas and medicines available on an emergency basis and added the continuous closure of 270-km long Srinagar-Jammu highway has resulted in shortage of other commodities in the Valley where petrol, diesel, food items, gas and medicines have also become scarce.

"As a result of the unavailability of these things, people have been facing great difficulties, while the voices of the people are being heard in the desert," Shahdar said.

He said Chilai Kalan has made life miserable and in those coldest days of winter, after the scarcity of electricity, now the shameful gas shortage has also put people in trouble. He said that in the absence of essential commodities, these items were being sold at extra prices and the concerned departments were watching it as mute spectator.

He said that the provincial administration should take immediate steps to deal with this crisis amd added the stock of medicines has run out and life-saving drugs are also running out, as a result of which the patients and their families deeply concerned. 

The KTA president said that according to tradition in the valley, stocks of essential commodities, fuel, petrol and medicines were stored before winter, so that there would be no shortage, however it seems that this time the administration  was in deep slumber. He demanded that food and gas be stored in the valley immediately and that these important and essential items be made available to the people at an earliest. (KNS)

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