Hafrada Payeen craves for mobile connectivity

Kupwara, Nov 27: Hafrada Payeen a remote village in Tarathpora Tehsil of Kupwara, is craving for mobile connectivity.

Locals said that the village comprises at least 200 households with more than 2, 000 population but has been deprived of the very basic right of telecommunications, thus leaving the inhabitants high and dry.

Locals said that they have to walk several kilometers to reach a specific hilly spot where their mobile phones get signal and only then they manage to make and receive calls.

Locals said that at the time of a medical emergency people face a lot of hardships and cannot contact their relatives immediately.

“Our mobile phones are of no use once we reach home. They serve as mere playing gadgets during evening hours,” a government employee of the area told Greater Kashmir. Manzoor Mir, a local said that students from Hafrada Payeen face most of the brunt because they don’t have access to the internet.

A group of students told Greater Kashmir that they were preparing for different SSRB exams but due to lack of mobile connectivity they can’t even talk to each other to clear the doubts. “Surfing internet in our village has been a distant dream for years now,” said a job aspirant.

The residents said that they have brought this issue into the notice of district administration numerous times but to no avail.

They have now sought immediate intervention of Deputy Commissioner Kupwara Ayushi Sudan this regard so that their grievances could be redressed at the earliest.