Saroori dismay over non start of MGNREGA works; urge PHE department to immediately repair hand pumps in Inderwal Constituency.

Government must administer justice by arresting the erring BSF personnel without any further delay: Saroori
 
Jammu, July 23: - Taking serious note of Home department Former Congress Minister and MLA Inderwal G M Saroori states that disbursement of ex gratia relief to the next of kin of Gool firing victims should not close the chapter of what happened in the brutal incident, if sincere, Chief Minister J&K Omar Abdullah and Home department must administer justice to these families by arresting the erring BSF personnel without any further delay.

He stressed that had the Omar Abdullah and home department prosecuted a single security force personnel or policeman in the past, the same would have created deterrence and prevented incidents like Gool to happen.

Saroori also expressed dismay over the "non-start" of work under MGNREGA this fiscal, saying that delayed execution of the central flagship programme mars livelihood of poor labourers and peasants.

"The inordinate delay in the launch of MGNREGA works complicates the problems of labourers and BPL populace, who derive sustenance under the programme," Saroori said in a statement here.

The demand driven MGNREGA calls for timely execution as it is essentially designed to generate employment for the poor and provide them wage security, he said.

He demanded the scheme to be free from bureaucratic wrangles which will be in the interest of the poor who have no resources to bank upon in this era of high price escalation.

Saroori has urged upon the PHE department to repair the hand pump as from the last one year hand pumps at Thathri, Drabshallah, Chatroo, Kuriya, Thakrie, Mulchitter, Sigdi, Saroor and Bunjwah are not working due to disorderness in Pumps. He said he also raised this question on the floor of the Assembly but PHE department is paying no heed to it.

He said he got after several assurances from PHE department, the situation is remained same and people are suffering in this high mercury and in the month of Ramzan they are facing lots of hardship.

Saroori cautioned department don’t force people to start slogans against PHE department as people will hold protest at large scale in Inderwal Constituency, if water supply schemes and hands pumps are not repair at an earliest.