SRINAGAR: Apni Party President Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Friday said there is an immediate need “to reform the health and education sectors to benefit people living in remote areas across Jammu and Kashmir.”
“These areas lack even basic infrastructure and adequate professional manpower in the health and education sectors, resulting in immense hardship for the people,” he said, adding, “Qualified doctors and teachers must be appointed and required to serve in these remote areas for a specified period, ensuring they do not leave immediately after securing government jobs.”
He stressed that achieving this would require long-term planning and concrete measures to strengthen essential services in underserved regions.
Bukhari, who is on an outreach tour of the Pir Panjal region along with the party’s Senior Vice President Ghulam Hassan Mir and other senior colleagues, was addressing a gathering of party workers today at the Dak Bungalow in Surankote, Poonch. This meeting was organised by party’s Zonal President SurankoteMassarat Hayat Malik, and others.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that over the past five days in the Pir Panjal region, he has been receiving first-hand feedback from the people, political workers, and activists about the pressing public issues and grievances in these areas.
The Apni Party chief said that he was informed that the centre did not provide safety bunkers to the residents of border areas as was promised.He said, “We have seen last year how vulnerable the people in these border areas are, as they fall prey to bullets and shelling from across the border. The Central Government had committed to ensuring the timely construction of community and individual bunkers wherever they are lacking. Unfortunately, this commitment has not been fulfilled.”
He added, “I urge the Central Government to take immediate measures to ensure that the people living in these border areas receive these bunkers without any further delay.”