STATE TIMES NEWS
REASI : Various villages of Pouni Block are suffering from acute shortage of drinking water and people fetch water from long distances or purchase from the tankers which they cannot afford.
The inhabitants said that the villages including Letar, Dab, Dadoa, Sadini, Kana Chak, Pouni, Bharakh and other areas are not getting piped drinking water for the last about two months. The daily wagers, CP workers and need based employees of the department are already on ‘Kaam Chhoro’ Hartal and the meager strength of permanent employees has been deputed by the department in the urban areas adding that the people in the rural areas get totally ignored.
The villagers including Jagdish Raj, Sanjay Kumar, Pawan, Satish Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Varinder Parkash, Yash Paul and Prem Nath strongly resented the elected representative of the constituency for not solving problems of their people. They said that during elections they reach their houses for votes even at odd hours and after elections they do not pick up the phone of their voters, leave aside addressing their grievances. The villagers appealed to the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to issue suitable instructions to the PHE Department to provide drinking water to the people.
