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Army provides water in border villages
Tribune News Service

Peer Badeshwar (LoC), May 31
Even as the water supply department has failed to provide drinking water on regular basis to villages near the Line-of-Control (LoC), the Army is providing the same through its tankers.

In fact, residents of about six villages near the LoC complained that though the department had installed water pipes in these villages, water came only once in three or four days.

“Though the department has installed pipes in our villages, it forgets to supply us with water on regular basis. Since the temperature is increasing day-by-day, we are facing acute water shortage. As the Army is supplying us with water, we don’t have to rely on the water supply department,” Nissar Ahmed, a villager, said.

Abdul Rasheed, a resident of Gharati village, said though the state government claimed to provide basic amenities to the people living along the LoC, such claims were hollow and self-defeating.

A senior army officer said since they had to fetch water from the Kallar area, they ensured that villages along the road, too, were supplied with water. Efforts to contact the local water supply department officers failed.