Bijbehara village craves for drinking water
Anantnag: Even as the administration has promised to provide tap water to the entire households in Jammu and Kashmir by March 2022, various villages located in several townships in south Kashmir are craving for potable water.
Residents of Dadoo village which is about 7 kms from Bijbehara area in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district have alleged that the claims made by Jal Shakti Department regarding their village are proving false as authorities have failed to provide drinking water facility to the area.
The locals said that the authorities have ‘failed’ to provide them drinking water facility despite installing water pipelines in year 2016.
The inhabitants said that the village is without drinking water facility as since last five years they have been waiting for tap connections after water pipeline was installed here.
“The entire population in the village is forced to consume unsafe water,” Ghulam Hassan Bhat, a local resident said.
According to locals, the PHE department started a water supply scheme in Marhma area, a decade back with an aim to provide drinking water facility to Dudoo village as well.
However, the residents said since then more than nine years have 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 to the village, but to no avail.
One of the residents said that almost 250 households are without drinking water facility due to which locals are facing immense hardships.
Locals here have urged the concerned authorities to look into the issue so that they could heave a sigh of relief.
Jahangeer Ganaie
