Excelsior Correspondent
Sopore, Nov 13: Inhabitants of two villages skirting the shore of Wullar Lake in Sopore have threatened migration if the Government doesn’t repair the road before the onset of harsh winter.
The villagers said the Government has failed to repair the 3.5 kilometer road that skirts the banks of Wullar Lake in Sopore.
The road stretch from Watlab to Zoorimaz and Bangladesh, the two hamlets on the lake shore, has numerous potholes and huge ditches which has made these villagers’ life miserable.
Even drivers refuse to ply their vehicles on the road despite villagers offering them double fare.
Beeba, a woman in her fifties, said she had never seen any repair work done on the road from the day when she had been married in Bangladesh village.
“We feel like a doomsday is looming over us when we have to leave our village for to market or to a hospital. We want to migrate from this village, but where shall we go,” she laments.
Her daughter, who did not want to be named, said falling ill or bearing children in the village was a sin as the women fear leaving their homes for visiting a doctor.
“The miserable road has made our lives hell. The Government has left us of nowhere. How could an expecting mother walk on this road on which healthy men fear to tread,” she said, while her cousin carries her infant baby along with her.
Pointing toward official neglect of the two villages, the administration seems not knowing even the location of the road.
“I don’t know which road you are talking about,” Showkat Ahmad Wani, Executive Engineer, PWD, Sopore said.
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