The problem of acute scarcity of drinking water won’t be solved until any VIP doesn’t come and inaugurate the water reservoir recently built for the populace of Munward area, some two Kilometers from Anantnag town.
The Reservoir was sanctioned afteer locals had held repeated protests and demonstrations against the water scarcity in the area. Later, then PHE Minister Taj Mohiuddin had commissioned a water reservoir in the year 2010 to provide drinking water to the area.
Though the reservoir is since completed, the authorities are reluctant to inaugurate it owing to the present unrest in Kashmir, sources said.
“They want any VIP or a minister to come and inaugurate it. It is just to please the concerned Minister,” sources said.
The populace of Munward suffer continuously and the women continue to walk two to three kilometres daily to fetch drinking water.
The people demand immediate inauguration of the reservoir to mitigate the sufferings.
(PTK)