Sangpora-Viloo tunnel will be a reality soon: Saroori.

Committed towards development of Inderwal, distributes 12.5 lakh cheques.

Chatroo (Kishtwar) Feb 20:- Former R & B Minister and MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori while addressing mammoth public gatherings at Dadpath, Mughal Maidan and Chatroo said that the dream of construction of Sangpora-Viloo tunnel connecting Kishtwar District with Kashmir will soon become a reality after Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh included the said tunnel in ten prestigious tunnel projects to be executed in the country including a tunnel for Ladakh. He said that Congress leadership at center including Ghulam Nabi Azad has assured him that GOI is committed towards construction of Sangpora-Viloo tunnel. He said that pre feasibility report of the tunnel already stands submitted with the GOI and hoped that Prime Minister of India will soon release the funds for construction of the said tunnel. He said that GOI has earmarked several funds for Jammu and Kashmir under various centrally sponsored schemes and urged the people of Chatroo area to avail the benefits of such schemes.

He said that Gujjar Hostel will start functioning at Chatroo in next few months, where the students from ST community will get free boarding and lodging facilities, beside free education up to middle standard. He said that under Prime Minister flagship schemes, nearly 5000 unemployed youths from Kishtwar District will avail job oriented courses training, beside job placement in various top leading companies of India. He said that nearly 160 students hailing from Inderwal constituency has been selected for various post graduation course in different colleges of the country free of cost. He said that centrally sponsored scheme MGNREA, GOI provides funds worth several hundred corers for poor people of rural areas and directed the RDD officials to make judicious use of the funds for the welfare of the poor people. He said that construction of various road projects under PMGSY are at advance stage and assured the people that he will work with zeal and zest for arranging the funds for various developmental project in Inderwal constituency. He said that the shortage of teaching staff in schools will be addressed within next few weeks and said that Deputy CM who holds the charge of Education department has assured him all possible help in this regard. In order to cool the temper of angry party workers, Saroori cleared before the people of his constituency that 2nd time in last couples of days that Ghulam Nabi Azad has no role in his exclusion from council of ministers.

Saroori while showing his unhappiness over unscheduled power in Chatroo and Thatri area of his constituency said that power ministry led by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is doing step motherly treatment with the areas represented by the Congress party. He stress for immediate augmentation of 6.5 MVA transformers at Thatri and 3.5 MVA at Dadpath Chatroo so that the people living in these areas will get respite from power cuts of nearly 18-20 hours a day. He also issued the direction to people not to pay any electricity bills until and unless the problem gets solved. He said that by his non inclusion into the council of ministers, he get more time to take care of people of Inderwal and issued warning to his critics that he will not tolerate any injustice in terms of funds with respect to Inderwal constituency. In the end Saroori also distributed first installment of 12.50 lakhs worth IAY/BRGF cheques among 164 beneficiaries.

Later Mr. Saroori also chaired the meeting of various government officials at Dak Banglow Chatroo which was attended by Tehsildar Chatroo Mohsin Ahanger, BDO Chatroo Seema Parihar, Xen PMGSY, AEE PDD Kishtwar Sudhir Sharma, JE PHE Masood Ahmed Dev, JE PMGSY Mansoor Ahmed Tak, VLWs, Sarpanches and others. He directed them to enhance the field visits to address people’s problems on priority and discharge their duties with extra zeal.