Open Letter to Omer Abdullah, Hon'ableChief Minister Jammu and Kashmir Government.

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Dear Sir,

We are all sick, In a democratic country like ours where we still have no provision to Right to Life owing to the increased accidents on our roads. This had become a routine and your Government has not learnt a lesson from these accidents to take herculean efforts in stemming the rot.
            Apart from daily routine basis, there seemed no vigil check on our driving culture. The people thriving below the poverty line are the prey of these ill fate accidents and administration seemed sleepy. There is not even a single Traffic check post or personnel to look after the traffic chaos of Bhalessa. This exposes the tall claims of your Government.
            Bhalessa has been a myth of negligence from other aspects also by the successive regimes.  I may put in records the accidents took place and the action thereof for the prevention from the last 13 years.
1.     Take an example of June 6, 2000, At least 11 people were feared dead and 15 others injured as a bus rolled down a road and fell into a gorge at Manoi Bhatyas.
2.     In 17 January 2009, At least 11 people were feared dead and 15 others injured as a bus rolled down a road and fell into a gorge on the same road.
3.     In 10th Feb. 2012, Nineteen persons were killed and one injured when a passenger carrier fell into a 200 feet deep gorge at Manoi Gandoh.
4.     On June 4, 2011, In a tragic accident in the mountainous Doda district, six persons including a minor girl were killed when a Tata Sumo carrying them plunged into nullah at Bathri
5.     In August 2009 accident on this road, two children were killed and 30 others got injured when a matador plunged into 350 feet deep gorge on the same road.
6.     Oct 9, 2011 - One killed, 13 injured in same road.
7.     On Sept 1:, 2013 A minor boy was killed, while 10 others were injured, when the Tata Sumo they were travelling in skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge near Gandoh.
8.     Very recently, a TEMPO Traveller plunged to gorge in which two person’s feared died and several others injured.
Besides the above figures, there is a routine of accidents every month,   several   precious lives are lost but nothing more than condoling the deaths and expressing shocks and grief were done by government and any authority. Regrettably no one tried to look into the root cause of accidents and came out with a plan or suggestion to decrease the frequency of accidents.
Owing to such depilating and narrowness of the road the area faced fatal accidents we urge you and your Government to set up Four Traffic check Posts (TCPs) at Donadi, Kahara, Bhatyas, Gandoh and Gowari in order to avert these tragedies in Doda district and Bhalessa.


Yours sincerely,
Inhabitants of Bhalessa
Through SADAKET MALIK,  Chairman National Students Welfare Association (NSWA)
Bhalessa Doda (J&K)


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