Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, June 22: Various remote villages in the hill block of Sumb in Samba district are facing water scarcity as successive Governments during last over 70 years have failed to provide safe drinking water to them with the result the people are dependent on dirty and contaminated water of local ponds.
According to the residents of the area and social activists including Pankaj Sharma, Panch Bhag Singh, Rashpal Singh and Panthers Party leader Naresh Kumar Sharma the remote areas of the hilly block Sumb have not been provided with safe drinking water till date. These villagers are dependent on dirty water of Bawli. They alleged that till date no officer in the administration has bothered to visit these villages to see the condition and plight of the hapless people living there who have been left on the mercy of God by the authorities.
Social activist Pankaj Sharma said that the people of Dabunu village are drinking contaminated water of Bawli for a pretty long time because the PHE Department has failed to provide drinking water in the area. He said as the people made complaints the department laid the pipes to provide the water supply to the village but to the discomfiture of the villagers the water passed through these pipes for only one day and people had to again dependent on traditional system of contaminated water.
Suraj Prakash Verma, Sarpanch of Sumb Panchayat, said that his block Sumb has about 100 Government hand pumps, out of which only 25 are working. He said that there are about 21 hand pumps in his Panchayat but only 8 of them are running. There is a lot of anger among the people against the callousness of the authorities who have failed to restore the drinking water to the area.
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