JAMMU: Saying that State Government failed to provide people with the basic amenities and infrastructure required for catering to their daily problems and woes like electricity and supply of drinking water, former Minister and senior Congress leader, Raman Bhalla on Monday said it was unfortunate that people were being subjected to load shedding of electricity for long hours.
Addressing the party workers at Narwal Bypass in Gandhi Nagar Constituency on Monday, Bhalla slammed government for snubbing yet again people of Jammu province with a proposed move to close completely the Civil Secretariat in Jammu for full six months-a move that would further add to the woes and difficulties of the already suffering people of Jammu region.
He said that such a move will force aggrieved people from Jammu region to go to Srinagar to get their work done.
“It was during the time of Congress Govt in 2006 that a decision was taken to introduce the concept of winter capital and summer capital taking into account the needs of the people and their financial constraints and the practice was followed during all these eight years between 2006 and 2014 without break, but all of sudden PDP-BJP Coalition Government doesn’t see any merit in this practice,” Bhalla maintained.
Pointing towards power crises in Jammu region, he said that when temperature is hovering over 45 to 47 degree Celsius, unscheduled power cuts have become a routine affair adding miseries to the people.
While expressing his grave concern over mounting problems of the common masses, he said that due to its mis-governance this regime has lost its credibility. He took the Coalition Government to task for its failure to provide even ration to the people in the urban areas what to say of rural and remote belts.
Bhalla sought immediate intervention of Chief Minister to avert the crisis and provide relief to the people of the Jammu region by taking desired steps to deal with power crisis especially in rural areas.
Expressing concern over black-marketing of kerosene oil, Bhalla demanded that when it reaches the dealer or the whole seller, it needs to be first checked by the Tehsildar or any officer from his office and certified that the tanker is not tampered with. Only after that a tanker should be unloaded at the depot, he added.