Many villages in south Kashmir’s Shopian district lack basic facilities causing immense sufferings to residents.
Residents of Wishur Bala village said they were forced to fetch water from a stream as the water supply line connecting the village has got blocked. “The supply line was laid many decades ago. It has got blocked at several places and at some location it was leaking in open,” said Mukhtar Ahmad, a local.
According to locals, the interior roads of the village were in dilapidated condition while the power supply was also erratic. “The authorities have forgotten our village since hardly any development work has been carried out during the past many years. Many electric poles which got damaged some years ago haven’t been replaced till date and the lines are hanging on tress and wooden poles,” said another local.
