Excelsior Correspondent
BARAMULLA, June 20: The migrant employees putting up at Transit Camp at Khanpura in Baramulla district of North Kashmir are facing acute shortage of drinking water.
Though the Transit Camp has been constructed over tow years back on the bank of river Jehlum, the authorities have failed to construct any water supply scheme for the camp keeping the inmates dependent on portable water through tankers, said a spokesman of the migrant employees of the Transit Camp.
He said against the daily need of 20,000 litres of water only 8000 liters are supplied putting the inmates to many hardships. The delegations of the employees called on Deputy Commissioner Baramulla and Executive Engineer PHE today but to no avail as the duo informed them that they can’t increase the tanker supply unless and until Relief Organization approaches for the same.
The spokesman said that 8000 litres can’t suffice the 350 employees who are putting up along with their families in the camp and demanded that the Government should increase the tanker supply. Besides steps should be taken for construction of an independent water supply scheme for the Transit Camp, he added.
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