Excelsior Correspondent
BISHNAH, July 13: Former Minister and senior Congress leader Gulchain Singh Charak has alleged that people from Bishnah and Arnia area are facing lot of problems due to water and power crisis.
Talking to media persons after concluding general body meeting of the Block Committee here today, Mr Charak said people in general from whole of the Jammu region and Bishnah constituency in particular are facing acute shortage of electricity because of the faulty infrastructure/ transformers, rotten cables and insufficient supply of electricity. The public is suffering for want of drinking water, dilapidated condition of roads, lanes and drains.
The students of the area are also suffering due to non-availability of building and other infrastructure for Degree College, Bishnah. There was shortage of ration at many depots and the consumers were suffering a lot. The farmers were deprived of adequate supply of irrigation water and their crop is being badly hit.
Mr Charak urged upon the Government to take immediate necessary steps for their redressal, otherwise people will be forced to come out on roads to lodge their protest against the concerned authorities. The Congress leader also demanded separate Secretariat for Jammu, after doing away with the old practice of moving the same after every 6 months to Srinagar and Jammu. He also warned the elements involved in the anti-party activities to shun their behavior and work for the welfare of the party in view of the coming elections.
Capt (Retd) Harshvardhan Sharma (BCC president), Waryam Chand senior vice president, Madan Bhagat general secretary, Dr Raghubir Singh Sarpanch and Mehal Singh were also present.
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