Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 31: Alleging acute scarcity of drinking water in Jammu region and rural areas in particular, the NPP activists led by party chairman Harshdev Singh organized a massive protest demonstration at Chief Engineer Jal Shakti Deptt office at Jammu today.
The protestors assembled at Bus Stand, Ramnagar and marched in a procession towards CE office where they held a massive protest- cum- dharna seeking fixation of responsibility for acute water crisis faced by the public in general and raised slogans against the PHE authorities for chronic water shortage in the scorching heat.
Alleging massive corruption in the PHE Deptt now renamed as Jal Shakti Deptt, Singh divulged that despite crores of rupees having been spent in records during the past few years, the new water supply schemes were nowhere in existence. The earlier schemes operationalized several years back had become defunct with hardly any action taken to restore them resulting in acute water crisis in majority of the villages especially in Ramnagar constituency.
NPP leader revealed that during his tour of various remote areas villages in the last few days, the people had come out with serious complaints of water shortage with none in the Deptt to listen to their woes. At several villages, the people complained that not a single official bothered to visit their villages for months together and none entertained their complaints.
Seeking ACB probe into the working of PHE sector in Ramnagar during the past 4-5 years, Singh sought thorough investigation into the works executed on the ground vis a vis funds expended in papers.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Gagan Partap Singh, Rajesh Kumar Pagotra, Surinder Chouhan, Khajoor Singh, Mohinder Singh and Karan Singh.
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