Darakhshan on a visit to Hilly Districts of Jammu Division

The Daily Excelsior

31st of August 2009
Darakhshan visits Chenani,Kud Udhampur and Batote
A delegation of members from NGO's accompanies her

Continuing her extensive tour of Udhampur and Ramban districts, Socialistic Democratic Party Chief Dr Darakhshan Andrabi today visited many villages in Chenani , Kud and Ramban areas.She was accompanied by SDP leaders Ajay Kumar, S K Koul and Peer Abdul Majid Shah. She was also accompanied by a six member delegation of national and international level NGO’s who arte accompanying on her request to explore possibilities for helping these people in distress. During the tour she addressed largely attended public ralleys at Chenani, Kud and Batote in addition to a workers convention at Ramban. Earlier Dr Darakhshan climbed up on foot to reach to many localities on hills. In her addresses Dr Andrabi expressed her deep concerns about the poor developmental state of these hilly villages. She said it was shocking to see majority of villages without the basic facility of drinking water, electricity and road connectivity. She said that even after sixty three years of peoples government these areas have not been provided with basic amenities. She also criticized the government for their inability in providing food items through CAPD depots. Dr Darakhshan said that the poority and joblessness of the inhabitants of these areas is clearly written on their faces but the government has failed to even read that misery from their faces. She requested the accompaniying delegates from NGO’s to lend financial help in providing some basic facilities to the people in these areas. The delegation head Mukul Padgaonkar assured Dr Andrabi that jointly these NGO’s will try to provide some solar lights, drinking water facilities and health centres in some of the villages. Dr Darakhshan also requested Indian Army to come to the help of these abondones villages out of their Operation Sadhbhavana resources.