VALPOI: Bhironda villagers have raised the three key issues – unemployment, underground cabling and water shortage – affecting them in the gram sabha held recently.
The streets lights in the Bhironda panchayat area are not working properly for several years and the 11 KV wires have become too old and are falling down.
Last week two people lost their lives due to electrocution. And earlier too many villagers have received electric shock due the 11 KV wires.
The irate villagers had complained to the electricity department, Valpoi and requested the replacements of the wires on several occasions. However, officials do not seem to be bothered are not bothered and have dyet to take action.
But villagers appear to have lost their patient and have threatened to take matters in their hands if no action is taken soon.
If such things continue in future, we will not keep quit. We will come on road, a villager Gurudas Gawade said.
The unemployment rate too has been increasing in our panchayat area and youth are not getting work. The ACGL, Pissurlem IDC and mining company are not providing jobs to locals and the panchayat has to discuss the issue with the companies, another villager Rajesh Rane pointed out.
Besides, villagers are facing water shortage and related problems for the past several years.
The water in the tank built in Vante village is getting wasted and not getting to the villagers. We have complaint to the junior engineer of irrigation department, but he is not taking any action, says another villager.
Replying to the issues, Bhironda Panchayat Sarpanch Nitin Shivdekar said the government has sanctioned the underground cabling project worth Rs 7 crores for the taluka.
I have spoke to the Health Minister Vishwajit Rane regarding the unemployment issue and he has assured us that he will solve the problem soon.
Regarding the water shortage problem, the sarpanch said in the coming days the irrigation department would build two more water tanks in the panchayat area.
Around fifty villagers were presence for gram sabha.
