By Sameer Ahmad
Anantnag: The residents of Brinty dialgam village today alleged that they face lot of problems due to acute shortage of water supply from past three years.
The residents alleged that even after protesting several times against the PHE authorities in village for not providing safe drinking water but to no vail.
Miffed over the ‘callous’ attitude of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department, the villagers of Brinty Dialgam threat to administration to hit the streets if there problem will not be solve.
While talking to INS, Abdul Rehman, A resident of Brinty told that we are being deprived of water facility and despite repeated requests to authorities neither the concerned department nor the administration bothered to sort our hardships.
He said that the authorities were laying pipes in village before four year back for Brinty and other adjoining villages but they 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 kilometre to fetch drinking water from tube wells,” another villager, Abdul Gani said. “Sometimes we use water from the ponds which puts our health at great risk.”
Our village is just 4 kms away from famous water spring Achabal, which supplies water to about 60 villages but due to unknown reasons we have been left without potable water,” they said and demanded immediate restoration of the potable water supply to the area. Gani said.
Meanwhile talking to INS AEE PHE Anantnag Reyaz Ahamd said that we have already taken up the execution of work the project was under approved by NABARD. Recently the project of the said village has approved. Added that it is not only to laying pipes in area we have started to work in three components and the work is undergoing in village. We have to laying various components of the scheme project and hopefully within two years the project will complete. he added.
