Jammu, Apr 2 (UNI) Union Minister and BJP Candidate for Udhampur, Doda, Kathua constituency Dr Jitendra Singh on Tuesday said that Udhampur has emerged among India’s top three districts in rural road construction under Central PMGSY scheme and this has been possible only because of the prioritisation given by the government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last 10 years.
Dr Singh accused the Congress led governments in the past, including the UPA government from 2004 to 2014, of following a policy of regional discrimination as a result of which the upper hilly remote areas and far flung peripheral panchayats of district Udhampur remained unconnected by road because these did not receive the kind of attention deserved.
As a result of this, he said, the people of this far flung region had to suffer the agony and hardship of carrying their patients and the elderly members of the family physically for movement from one place to the other or in a ‘palki.