Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 12: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference chief spokesperson and in-charge Constituency Zadibal, Tanvir Sadiq today said that half-baked policies cannot tackle the growing public issues in Srinagar city.
Addressing a one-day workers’ convention in Nowshahr area, (Zadibal constituency), Tanvir asserted that Srinagar is not just confined to City center Lal Chowk and MA Road, saying there is a vast unattended urban city population, whose problems need robust solutions.
“Makeshift and patchwork are the hallmarks of Srinagar’s development scenario. It was claimed that the age-old bullock cart approach of the town building process would no longer impede the developmental activities in the city. But the ground situation in Srinagar is quite contrary to what was claimed,” he said.
Expressing dismay over the sorry state of affairs in Srinagar Tanvir said, “Over the past six years, Shahar-e-Khas bore the brunt of successive lockdowns and curbs. Shopkeepers, artisans and marginal traders were not able to do their business here. We have more than three families living in one house. Youth are unemployed, the heritage is in shambles, and it has been years since the city infrastructure received any upgradation and augmentation.”
He said that the successive orders of the incumbent administration has left no scope for the early revival of businesses in Srinagar.
“Let alone spending on clothing, medicine and education, people are not able to get two square meals for their families. It was expected that the crumbling economic activities in J&K post August 5, 2019 will have a restraining effect on the government’s taxation policy but the unabated rise in electricity and water tariff has given slip to the unconcerned attitude of the government,” he said.
NC leader further said that demolition drive, imposition of property tax and increasing menace of drug addiction is deepening the despair of the poor across the city.
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