Tral : The residents of Gutroo-Bangdar in South Kashmir’s Tral Sub district, protested on Saturday and have accused the successive state governments of failing to provide them the basic amenities.
Bangdar-Gutroo, located in the top of Tral, with 200 families, is still lacking the basic facilities including road, bridge and healthcare.
The residents complained that the authorities failed to provide them with much needed road and bridge besides healthcare, due to which locals suffer from immense problems.
“Despite several requests for the construction of bridge and road in the area, concerned authorities have taken no concrete step to fulfil demands of people,” the residents rued while talking to INS, adding that due to lack of bridge, they suffer tremendous hardships particularly in winters and at the time of floods in local stream.
According to the villagers, besides the lack of bridge, there is no proper connectivity because of dilapidated roads which is very injustice for them as people always suffer while going to nearby areas.
The people said that all the politicians remember them at the time of Assembly and Parliament elections.
“The politicians visit us during elections and assure us of providing basic facilities and upliftment. But once the elections are over, they don’t even come to the area,” a local resident Fazil Ud Din told INS.
The villagers have now urged the Chief Minister, Mehboba Mufti and MLA Tral Mushtaq Ahmad Shah to intervene in the matter and mitigate their grievances at an earliest.
Assistant Executive Engineer, R&B department Tral, Zahoor Ahmad Shah, told INS that, they are not aware about this problem in the area as no proposal to construct bridge and road is available so far in the department. “Once the department will get any proposal from higher authorities, the initiative shall be taken in this regard,” he said.
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