Srinagar, Oct 03: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar on Tuesday said the present administration of Jammu and Kashmir has completely failed to provide basic facilities and essential services to the people.
“The tyranny of non-local bureaucrats has proved fatal to the people here as they are constantly unable to perform their duties and responsibilities,” he said while addressing a meeting at the party headquarters. District President Srinagar Pir Afaq Ahmed, Women Wing Provincial President Er. Sabia Qadri and other officials were also present in the meeting, the party said in a statement.
During the meeting, the participants highlighted the problems and difficulties of the people of their respective areas before the general secretary, the statement said, adding that Sagar directed the party functionaries to voice public grievances at all appropriate forums for their speedy redressal.
The meeting was particularly marked up by threadbare discussions on shortage of electricity, ration crisis, prolonged power outages, inflation, unemployment and spur in drug menace.
Addressing the meeting, Sagar said that although the current rulers have been making loud claims about ensuring a steady supply of basic utility services, the ground situation is completely contrary to such claims. “Erratic power supply has particularly become the norm of the day. No schedule is being followed. It was claimed that power steady power supply will be ensured throughout the winter. Let alone ensuring the availability of power supply during winter, the government is not able to ensure adequate power supply at the very onset of winter. People only receive hefty bills, but when it comes to ensuring adequate power supply, the government turns volte-face,” he said.
“All the claims of development and prosperity by the government are smokescreen to hide their failures on every front,” the NC leader said.
