Sopore: The residents of Adipora and other areas of Sopore North Kashmir Baramulla district are up in arms against PHE for failing to provide them portable drinking water to residents from last five days.
Calling it a sheer disregard to public apathy and brazen misuse of authority, residents of the effected area has urged governor led administration to fix responsibility on erring officers.
“They have deliberately stopped portable water supply just to show us their power and to force us into silence,” they accused. \
Residents of Jalalabad locality told INS that they time and again raised the issue with concerned officers who ‘are fond of playing cruel joke with people by giving them false hopes and hoax promises’.
An official at the PHE claimed that main supply pipe has broken and the efforts are on to restore the supply.
However people have refused to believer the official version saying they have heard such ‘responses earlier as well’.
“They dont like people raising their voices over their misconduct of official duties. But we will not keep silence,” they said.
Locals said that if the water supply is not restored in earnest ‘they will be forced to take harsh measures, responsiblity of which will be on government’.
“We should not be held responsible for any strong measure we take against such officers. Government should intervene in the matter before situation takes any bad turn,” they claimed.
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