Bandipora, Dec 23: Member of Parliament (MLA) Bandipora, Nizamuddin Bhat has called upon the administration to address the power and water crises arising out of freezing conditions in the valley.
In a statement issued here, Bhat said the entire population of humans and animals in inaccessible hill areas is left with no alternative to getting water for daily use. He said sustenance as natural resources are frozen or have dried up and alternative services including tanker services do not operate and have come to a halt.
“The condition in plains is no different where lift schemes are becoming non-functional either due to mechanical snags or due to poor power supply and poor storage,” he said, adding, “In the absence of power in several areas is compounding the people’s woes. Patients, children and aged people are in trouble.”
Bhat expressed dismay over the absence of prompt response to such disastrous situations.
He said the Wular population due to frozen zones has even lost daily earnings and is left resourceless. “People in far-off villages of Bandipora, including Waven, Duban, Kudara, Kota Satri and entire Quil and Naidkhai blocks are finding it difficult to bear the brunt of cold wave, poor power supply and poor crisis management,” he said.
The MLA appealed to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to take note of people’s miseries and gear up essential services to mitigate the crisis.
“I hope the people also will cooperate as most of the misery is the outcome of natural intervention and administration alone is not equipped enough to deal with the abnormal situation without public support,” he added.
