Bandipora : A village located just five kilometers from north Kashmir’s Bandipora town has been craving for a better road for the past many years, locals complained on Friday.
The local residents of Turkpora said that their area has been without road connectivity for the past many years creating hardships for the entire population of the area.
The village, having around 300 households is inhabited by the Gujjar community and Kashmiris, is without proper road connectivity from Aywan-Mohalla to Nakhan Dobun.
“Even in this modern era we don’t have road connectivity and the irony is that we have to walk through thick forests to reach the village either by foot or on horses, ” the villagers said.
“We have been deprived of even basic facilities by the successive regimes as no one has even bothered to visit the village in the last 60 years,” they said.
The villagers further alleged that for the last several years, the government has even failed to construct a road in their village from Aywan-Mohalla.
Shafeeq Ahmad, a local resident, said that in absence of a proper road leading to their village they simply don’t have any choice except to carry even their patients on their shoulders.
Ghulam Ahmad, an elderly local resident, said that the administration has forgotten the village which is why they are facing such problems. “We appeal to the authorities to develop the road so that we can get some relief,” he said—(KNO)
