August 02
Strange it may sound but it is a bitter truth that several tribal villages have no connection with rest of the district in District Shopian of South Kashmir.
In the era of technology where crores are spent on electricity, water and road projects, the tribal villages in Shopian have accused the authorities of step-motherly attitude towards them.
As investigated by The Kashmiriyat Around 800 households from Dachoo, Krichpathri, Sarbal, Guttan and other areas of Hirpora belt which is at least 25 Kilometres distant from the district headquarter have no connection with district.
The locals have been demanding bridge on Ranbiara rivulet from last several decades however authorities have failed to provide them with a bridge.
Locals told The Kashmiriyat that assurances and tall promises of Politicians and officers on ground have proved only a hoax as this area is still cut off from the rest of the world for want of a bridge.
“We are suffering from hundreds of problems due to lack of road connection as most of us have to cross the Ranbiara every day to earn wages,” they said adding, “mostly school going children are suffering as they have to cross this river twice or thrice a day to go to school.”
They said that they want to educate their children to have their best future and that their children are studying in different schools of shopian, however, heavy rains are order of the day in this forest area where they reside, due to which there is heavy flow of water in the Ranbiara rivulet thereby making it impossible for villagers to cross it, hence affecting future of the children.
“We have to carry patients including pregnant ladies, children, aged persons on wooden stretches to cross the river and reach Hirpora,” a local resident Muhammad Rafiq Khan told The Kashmiriyat.
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The villagers are forced to carry goods and other material on horses and those who have no horses are forced to carry the same on their back while walking for a long distance, he said.
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The villagers said that they have been visiting offices of government incumbents from decades for the same where they are regularly being assured that you will be connected to rest of the district but so far nothing went in our favour.
When government can spend hundreds of crores on Mughal road, why they can’t spent some lakes on the construction of Bridge on this rivulet so as to solve our problem, they said.
The Executive engineer Road and building shopian Zahoor Ahmed upon being contacted by The Kashmiriyat said that the demand is genuine and needs to be addressed at an earliest.
“We have already forwarded a report to the government for the sanction of funds,” he said.
He added that the area will soon be connected with a temporary bridge so that locals would not suffer any more.
Work on permanent bridge will be started soon after funds will be sanctioned, he said.