Anantnag: People of village Dehruna Mantpora Anantnag and other adjoining villages alleged that they face lot of problems due to acute shortage of water supply from past one year.
The villagers protested many times against the authorities for not providing safe drinking water.
Miffed over the callous attitude of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department, the villagers of Dehrun Matpura and other adjoining villages took to the streets and protested against the PHE authorities.
While talking to Kashmir Observer, Manzoor Ahmed, resident of Dehruna told that we are being deprived of water facility and despite repeated requests neither the concerned department nor the administration bothered to sort our hardships.
He said that the authorities were laying pipes before one year for Dehruna and other adjoining villages but they did not complete their work still now and we do not understand why the authorities did not complete their work. The work is pending from last one year and people suffer a lot of problem of water he added.
We are forced to cover a distance of almost a kilometre to fetch drinking water from tube wells, another villager, Showkat Ahmed said. Sometimes we use water from the ponds which puts our health at great risk.
Meanwhile an official from PHE department said that due to construction work, a pipeline had been damaged in the area. We are on job and the crisis will be over soon, he added.
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