Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, May 15:- Apni Party provincial president, Jammu and former Minister, Manjit Singh has demanded desilting of the canals in Ramgarh, Samba ahead of the paddy season.
Addressing a workers meeting at Ramgarh, Manjit Singh was reviewing the party’s working and put forth the strategy to strengthen its roots in Samba district, and its border villages.
The meeting was organized by district president, Legal Cell, Sahil Bharti, district president, Samba, Raman Thappa, Lovely Mangol, block president, Ramgarh, Bachan Choudhary and others.
He asked the party leaders to launch a door to door campaign among the people with regard to the various developmental policies and programmes of the Apni Party.
He referred to the issues of the border farmers who suffer because canal water is not reaching the tail-end villages in Ramgarh, and other villages of district Samba.
“The canal is unclean and this becomes an obstruction in the flow of canal water to reach up to the tail-end villages. Therefore, the desilting of canals is must as the farmers use canal water for irrigation purposes and paddy season is also approaching. The Irrigation Department should immediately take necessary steps to desilt the canal up to the villages along the border,” he said.
He also said that most of the bore wells of the Irrigation Department are not functional and the Department has also turned blind eye towards the problems of the farmers.
In absence of canal water, he said that the farmers in the border belt use bore well water for drinking, and irrigation purposes. He appealed to the Government to ensure supply of drinking water through tap in every left out village of Ramgarh.
Similarly, he raised concern over the developmental issues in villages, and poor cleanliness.
He demanded better hospital facilities for the villagers who have to travel for hours to reach Vijaypur or to GMC Jammu to get medical care.
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