Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 21: Former Minister, Dr Manohar Lal Sharma today submitted a memorandum to LG through ADC Billawar highlighting the burning issues of Billawar area.
The memorandum said that summers are on its peak and temperature has risen exponentially making it difficult for people. Instead of giving more power supply, PDD has resorted to unscheduled long power curtailments up to 4-5 hours, making total power cut both scheduled and unscheduled of approximately 10-12 hours in 24 hours thus causing inconvenience to the masses .
The memorandum said instead of giving uninterrupted continuous power supply in this scorching heat, PDD is giving 12 hours of power cut.
“If there is no light then water supply is not released on that particular day. These days when Summer is at peak, the power curtailment has been increased which directly affect the water supply. Due to non-availability of power people are facing shortage of water also as without electricity water can’t be lifted. Also more than 70 % of the hand pumps installed are in non-working condition. Whenever people approach Department for repairing/restoring of these hand pumps, shortage of funds is the reply from the authorities,” the memorandum added.
It further said sanitary / hygienic condition at present in Sub District Hospital Billawar and Primary Health Centres in tehsil Ramkote, Lohaimalhar and Billawar is quite pitiable and unhygienic inviting to pandemic in this weather. Toilets are without cleanliness and without proper infrastructure, it added.
The memorandum sought intervention of LG in the matter and urged him to issue directives to the concerned departments to take necessary steps on urgent basis as masses of Billawar Assembly are suffering a lot. Also present were Sham Spolia block president, Billawar, Romesh Verma block president Mandli, Th Bhudhi Singh block president Ramkote, Jagdev Singh ex Sarpanch, Karan Dev Singh ex Sarpanch, Romesh Spolia ex Sarpanch, Rajinder Verma ex Sarpanch, Mukesh Kumar ex Sarpanch, Amit Dogra, Romesh Bhagat ex Municipality corporator, Subash Singh Biloria ex Municipality Corporator, Sagar Singh Biloria, Raj Kumar Rajput Sabha president.
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