SHOPIAN

Shopian Residents Protest Against PHE

By News Desk

January 18, 2019

January 18

Residents of several villages in South Kashmir’s Shopian district staged a protest to demand the restoration of water supply to their areas.

Shouting slogans against the Public Health Department (PHE), the residents blocked the road at Habbad pora village of Shopian district.

Speaking to The Kashmiriyat, the residents claimed that they the available water supply scheme provides drinking water facility to almost 34 villages of Shopian district and now the department is planning to add more villages to it.

“If more villages are added to the already huge number of 34, the water scheme will become useless, the PHE Department must rethink its decision,” the residents said.buy filitra online https://www.bodybuildingestore.com/wp-content/themes/classic/inc/new/filitra.html no prescription

The residents said that the department should construct a separate water filtering plant for these villages.

Upon contacting a PHE officer in the area, he told The Kashmiriyat that the demands of protesting villagers are genuine and the department is planning to make alternatives for water supply to the rest of the villages.