Bandipora, Jan 25 (KNO): Although development remained war cry of successive regimes so far, Banyari, a village in north Kashmir’s Bandipora continues to crave for the basic facilities like road connectivity, adequate electricity, potable water supply and health facilities, thus leaving the residents there to lurch at large.
Talking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the locals said the area lacks each and every facility from decades. “We have no proper road connectivity, water supply, electricity and no health facility, even there is no school in our village,” they said.
“The high-tension and low-tension transmission lines are of poor quality and are lying low, often developing snag and affecting electric supply to the village,” the locals said.
Besides, they said in absence of proper roads, the authorities here have added to the miseries of people by spreading mud or silt from Wullar-Lake during ongoing dredging project haphazardly, thus making it difficult for them to walk or even commute on it.
“We aren't even able to walk over the road, the students are stuck at their homes all because the mud is being dumped around the village,” locals said while blaming the WUCMA for the deteriorating environment around the village already having a shortage of basic amenities.
The locals said that they are being forced to face hardships inn very aspect. “We are forced to drink contaminated water from streams as the area is without an upgraded water supply scheme,” Abdul Gani, an elderly resident said.
Dar claimed that 60% of the people in this village are illiterate. The primary reason for such high illiteracy is the absence of a high school or higher secondary school. “We had a middle school here, which was relocated by the government six months ago after which the education of our wards got affected,” he said.
“There is no health care facility in our area, thus leaving the people here to suffer. In absence of the health facility, the people are being forced to visit Hajin health care facility for treatment, which is ten kilometres away from the village,” he said.
Meanwhile, the residents appealed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and the district administration to intervene into the matter and redress their grievances—(KNO)