Ramban, Mar 12: National Conference (NC) leader and district president Ramban Sajjad Shaheen has urged the LG-led administration to make all adequate arrangements including uninterrupted power and water supplies for ensuing the holy month of Ramadan in district Ramban including Gool and Sangaldan.
During his day-long extensive tour to Gool, Sandaldan, Kaintha and Harog on Monday, Shaheen met scores of people and also interacted with party workers. He said the locals apprised him of the dilapidated condition of roads, erratic power supply in far-off areas besides lack of health care facilities in their villages.
“The people also complained about the scarcity of drinking water in several villages and demanded Construction of Sub-district hospital building at Gool and immediate construction of a bridge at Chapran Nallah,” he said.
Shaheen underlined the need for the constitution of special market checking squads to keep the check on profiteering, hoarding and black-marketing. He asked the district and the local administration to ensure strict implementation of government approved rate lists.
The NC leader demanded that the district and tehsil level authorities must ensure availability of essential commodities in the market including vegetables and poultry besides timely supply of gas, kerosene, flour and sugar from the government depots to the consumers.
Sajjad stressed on the need for uninterrupted power and water supply across the district particularly far flung areas of all the tehsils of Banihal, Khari ,Ramsoo,Neel, Pogal-Paristan and Ramsoo besides Ramban, Gool, Sangaldan , Batote, Sumar and other areas during the holy month of Ramadan particularly during Sehri and Iftaar time.
Later, Shaheen, accompanied by other party leaders and functionaries, visited the residences of two accident victims in Kentha, Gool, who recently died in a tragic road accident near Battery Cheshma, near Ramban, to offer condolences to the bereaved families. They also visited the residences of Late Abdul Samad Lohar, former party block president of Gool, and Mohammad Shafi Kumhar, party block president of Sangaldan, whose son and father had recently passed away due to brief illness ,respectively.
