By Sameer Ahmad
Anantnag: The residents of Guchan Sheikhpora village in Dooru area of south kashmirs Anantnag District today alleged that they face lot of problems due to acute shortage of water supply in area from past three years.
The residents alleged that we had request several times to authorities to look into the matter and provide us safe drinking water. But the authorities no veil
Miffed over the callous of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department, the villagers of Guchan Sheikhpora village of Dooru Anantnag threat to administration to hit the streets if there problem will not be solve.
While talking to INS, Abdul Rashid, a local resident told that we are being deprived of water facility and despite repeated requests neither the concerned department nor the administration bothered to sort our hardships.
He said that the authorities were laying pipes in village before three year back for Guchan Sheikhpora attitude village but they did not complete their work still now and we do not understand why the authorities did not complete their work. The work is pending from three year and people suffer a lot of problem of water he added.
We are forced to cover a distance of almost a kilometer to fetch drinking water from tube wells,” another villager, Gh Rasool said. “Sometimes we use water from the ponds which puts our health at great risk.
Meanwhile when contacted to the Concern junior Engineer PHE Nazir Ahmad assured and said that the allotment has already issued from the area and the village is comes under news scheme NRDWDP, We will start work very soon in village and the work will complete within one and half month. We had already made their filtration plant and we are going now to lying their pipes and hope that we will complete work with one and half month, he added.
