Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 17: Seeking immediate Government attention, former MLC and senior PDP leader Firdous Tak today said that around 50000 population of snowbound areas of Kishtwar were at the verge of starvation in the absence of essential commodities.
“The areas of Marwah, Warwan and Dachan in Kishtwar district are facing severe crisis due to the non-availability of essentials as the shops are running dry and there is absolutely no surface connectivity since November 2019,” Tak said in a statement.
He said that the Sinthan-Anantnag, Matigawran-Inshan, Warwan-Nowapachi, Dang-dooru-Soundar roads remained closed for the last six months. “The roads were closed due to early snowfall, this winter, catching locals off the guard and giving them no opportunity to store essentials”, he said.
“I have been told by the local residents that even the commodities for the basic day-today needs were not now available. Medicine and baby food have also gone out of stock. These roads usually, open in the first week of April but as there is no such relief in sight now the locals have started panicking”.
The PDP leader said that due to the prevailing lockdown the chopper service, which was the only transportation facility available, was also stopped adding miseries to the local residents.
He urged the Government to take immediate steps to open the roads and press SRTC trucks in the service in order to dispatch essential commodities to these areas. “The Government shall also consider airlifting of essential commodities in collaboration with local traders from Kishtwar and Anantnag on humanitarian grounds”.
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