Kokernag village craves for drinking water facility
Anantnag: Even as the government claims to provide tap water to the entire households in Jammu and Kashmir by March 2022, various villages located in several townships are craving for clean drinking water facility.
Residents of Sagam village which is just few kms from Kokernag area in south Kashmi have alleged that tall claims of Jal Shakti Department are getting punctured here as authorities have failed to provide drinking water facility to the area.
The locals said that the authorities have ‘failed’ to install water pipelines to supply potable water to the village.
The inhabitants said that the village is without drinking water facility as no water pipeline has been installed here so far, thus leaving the entire population to consume unsafe water.
According to locals, the PHE department started a water supply scheme in the nearby area, a decade back with an aim to provide drinking water facility to many villages including Sagam.
However, the resident said since then around a decade has passed but they are yet get a single drop of drinking water from the proposed scheme.
The locals further said that they approached the concerned authorities several times, requesting them to provide drinking water facility to the village, but to no avail.
One of the residents said that over 150 households are without drinking water facility due to which locals are facing immense hardships.
“We have brought this issue into the notice of concerned authorities several times but no action has been taken so far,” they said.
Locals once again urged the concerned authorities to look into the issue so that they could heave a sigh of relief.
