Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 29: Urging the Govt to fulfil the commitments made with the business community of Sangermal Commercial Complex, People’s Democratic Party today said the Govt had cheated them and gone back on what it had promised in its promotional brochures.
Interacting with a representative delegation of Sangermal business community, the party president, Mehbooba Mufti said this prestigious complex was pushed out of limelight for some mysterious reasons, one of which perhaps could be it had been constructed by the PDP-Congress coalition.
According to a party spokesman, the delegation brought to the notice of PDP president that the inability of the Government to live up to its promises, it had made through its printed literature to those who purchased space in the mall.
They said the frontage of the complex, as it was originally planned on the Moulana Azad Road, is nowhere in sight and the plan has perhaps been shelved. They said it had resulted the complex having a side rather than a front entry.
Similarly, the fountain, in the courtyard which has reportedly cost three million rupees, has remained dysfunctional ever since its construction.
Mehbooba was informed that the power supply to the complex has been disconnected ‘because of non-payment of dues’. They informed the PDP chief that actually it was the Srinagar Development Authority, which owed money to the electric department; otherwise, the business units have been regularly paying their dues.
Demanding immediate restoration of power supply to the complex, Mehbooba said it has become a practice of the present Government to blindly punish the innocent instead of the guilty, and in this case it is the businessmen of the complex who are facing a wrath of an insensitive and inefficient administration.
Assuring the delegation that she would take up the matter, Mehbooba said the Government is seen to be deliberately punishing the businessmen, who choose to place faith in a Government organisation.
She said these people had made heavy investments into the business concerns and were forced with loses as a result of Government apathy.
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