Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, July 31: Ranbir Singh Pathania, former MLA and J&K BJP Spokesperson has called upon the local administration to immediately clear and ensure regular traffic on Udhampur to Ghordi as well as Ramnagar to Basantgarh roads.
While addressing party cadres at Ramnagar and taking stock of situation arising post rainfall in the hilly areas of Udhampur district, Pathania observed that the ever busy Basantgarh road has lying closed for vehicular traffic since more than a month.
Similarly, he added, the ever busy Udhampur to Ghordi road, which acts as a lifeline for about 50,000 population of the area in and around Ghordi, has again been closed while the daily transport is out of gear.
Pathania also called for roving enquiry as to why both of these roads sanctioned under CRF have not been completed as yet. He called for fixing of responsibility and punitive action against the contractor agencies as well as the defaulting officers who despite sanctioning of huge funds by the Government of India are slept over the ambitious projects.
“Now the condition is that even the routine traffic on the roads has been suspended leading to eternal hardships and day to day inconvenience to the public of the area,” said the Ex MLA and called for immediate restoration of civil supplies in view of incessant rains.
Fearing that the shortage of essential commodities like LPG, kerosene, household articles, power and clean drinking water may bloom up into a calamity for the people putting up over here, Pathania sought unfolding of immediate crash measures so as to restore power, drinking water, ration supplies and spur up human and animal healthcare facilities in the area so that the miseries and hardships of the people over here could be curtailed.
Among those who accompanied Pathania, included Mool Raj, DDC Ramnagar-I; Jattu Ram, DDC Ramnagar-II; Banti Devi, President MC Ramnagar; Rakesh Kharka, Vice President MC Ramnagar; Jagmohan, Rajgopal, Varinder Singh, Rameez Sheikh, Suram Chand, Rameshwar Gupta, Kuldeep Sharma and others.
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