Srinagar, Feb 28, : Residents of Dardsun , a far flung village in Kralpora area of Kupwara district are facing tremendous difficulties, due the absence of a bridge over a Nallah, which they have to cross over by foot to catch transport for district head quarter.
A delegation of people from the village headed by local sarpanch Mushtaq Ahmed Mir S/O Abdul Aziz Mir told NEWS AGENCY that their sufferings due to the non-availability of the bridge over the Nallah has left them cut off with other parts of the district, while their children have to take off their shoes and wade through water to reach their school, which are located across the Nallah.
They said that in case of patients, they have to carry them on their shoulders or on cots across the Nallah, to take to them hospitals in Kupwara or Srinagar for treatment.
Sarpanch Mir said, “We don’t have roads in our village, while government is making tall claims of building infrastructure in the rural areas.”
“The one we have in the village has been built by villagers themselves under Halle Shri effort”, he added.
Another villager from Kahn Mohalla, Dardsun Mohammad Yasin Khan, whose son Mohammad Altaf is suffering from kidney failure said, “I have to take my ailing son to Srinagar twice a week for dialysis, but have to carry him on the cot from my home to take him across the Nallah.”
According to the members of the delegation, there are about ten patients in the village, who are undergoing dialysis, who have to be carried on shoulders and on cots to be taken to the Hospitals in Kupwara and Srinagar for treatment.
“Same is the case with terminally and seriously ill patients, who are subjected to great amount of discomfort for receiving treatment outside the village”, said another villager Abdul Majeed.
They demanded the administration to look into the difficulties they are facing due to the non-availability of bridge over the Nallah and requested District Development Commissioner to provide them the required bridge and construction of pukka roads in their village reported CNS.
