Nizamuddin Bhat calls upon administration to mitigate crisis arising out of freezing cold

Bandipora, Dec 23: MLA Bandipora Nizamuddin Bhat has exhorted upon administration to meet the crisis, including power and water crisis, arising out of freezing conditions in the Kashmir valley.

In a statement, Bhat said “that entire population of humans and animals in inaccessible hill areas is left with no alternative to get water for daily use and sustenance as natural resources are frozen or have dried up and alternative services including tanker services do not operate and have come to a halt.”

Bhat said the condition in plains is no different where lift schemes are becoming non-functional either due to mechanical snags or due to poor power supply and poor storage.

“In the absence of power in several areas is compounding woes of people. Patients , children and aged people are in trouble," he said. He expressed dismay over absence of prompt response to such disastrous situations and asked “where the management is?”

Bhat said that the Wular population due to frozen zones has even lost the daily earnings and are left resourceless. He said that people in far off villages of Bandipora, including Waven, Duban, Kudara, Kota Satri and entire Quil and Naidkhai blocks are finding it difficult to bear the brunt of cold wave, poor power supply and poor crisis management.

He appealed to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to take note of miseries of the people and gear up essential services to mitigate the crisis. He hoped that residents also will cooperate as most of the misery is outcome of natural intervention and administration alone is not equipped enough to deal with the abnormal situation without public support.