STATE TIMES NEWS
RAJOURI: Former MLC and Chief Spokesperson JKPCC Ravinder Sharma conducted two days tour of Sunderbani-Nowshera areas of district Rajouri and took stock of the problems of people.
Addressing a series of meetings and interactions with prominent citizens and party workers, Sharma said that present coalition of PDP-BJP has failed to address the basic needs of people during its ten months rule and people are suffering for want of basic facilities of life. He said that people are facing acute shortage of ration for the past few months, as the government has failed to supply the sanctioned scale of ration while sugar has not been provided for the past around four months, which has caused a great resentment amongst people.
He was also apprised about the erratic power supply and the deterioration in the water supply schemes at several places. He said that the work on the sectioned projects under RGGVY phase-II for electrification of left out areas, have not been started despite lapse of over one year.
The present government has only changed the name of the scheme to ‘Deen Dayal Upadhaya Scheme’, as part of its ‘branding and packaging’ expertise. Similarly defunct and defective water supply schemes at several areas including one in Nonial has not been taken up besides failure to start the sanctioned scheme of water supply in Pukhernee near LoC in Nowshera.
Sharma lashed out at the government for its failure to concede the demands of the daily wagers, need based, CP workers, ITI trained and other such categories in PHE, Irrigation, Flood Control and other Departments and urged the government to frame their regularisation policy at the earliest besides regular wages to them.
Sharma asked the party workers to raise the issues of people and gear up the administrative machinery for redressal of genuine demands. He also expressed serious concern over the faulty BSNL system in the entire area for the past sometimes and demanded immediate steps to remove hardships faced by the people.
Working President DCC Som Nath, Block President H.L Bakshi, besides prominent leaders Sub. Gain Chand; Retd. Dy. SP Lekh Raj, R.L.Prasher, Dwarka Nath, Makhan Lal (Retd. CEO), Sub. Joginder Singh, Lok Raj Khajuria, Pashori Lal, Puran Chand (Seva Dal), Ashwani Kumer also accompanied him.
