Bandipora, Apr 06 (KNO): Owing to the lackadaisical approach from the administration, locals in Banilpora village of North Kashmir's Bandipora spent Rs 6 lakh from their own pocket to construct a road leading to their area.
Locals told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that they have collected donation around Rs 6 lakh and later constructed the road leading to their area (Molvi-Mohalla) from Banilpora.
Locals said that they approached authorities many times, "but they never paid heed to our repeated pleas."
"It took us around three years to collect the money and construct the road," they said.
Jabar Khan, a local said that he had informed the administration about the issue several times but nothing happened which forced them to raise funds to construct the road on their own.
"We are very poor and can hardly feed our children and cannot afford such a huge amount all the time for the development of our locality. It is now the responsibility of administration to look into this and do the required work," Hakeem Khan another local said.
A female local panch from the area said that the people are living below the poverty line, while the area is lacking all basic facilities for a long time.
"Though they have elected me to end their sufferings and miseries but my efforts are also not working. This is a shame for the administration that even living below the poverty line these people had to raise funds on their own to construct the road," she said.
Locals appealed to DC Bandipora to pay due attention to their area so that their sufferings and miseries will come to an end—(KNO)