Panchayat, ULB polls will solve probs at grassroots level:Cong

Congress today said Jammu and Kashmir Governor's decision to hold panchayat and urban local bodies polls will help address many problems being faced by the people at the grassroots level.
Addressing a rally at Indri Manchak in Khour constituency of Jammu, former Deputy Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Tara Chand said democracy should flow to the grassroots level and this (polls) will ensure greater involvement of people in decision making and self-governance.
He asked the people to participate in these polls so that the problems which the common man is facing could be addressed.
People from several border villages along the Line of Control (LoC) gathered at Indri Manchak village and the Congress leader along with Sarpanches and Panches took out a procession demanding solution to their day-to-day problems.

The procession concluded at Khorian, where Chand listen to the grievances of the villagers who demanded immediate payment for the works done by them for rural development, public works and flood control in the last one-and-a-half years.
They also asked the Congress leader to take up issue of non-payment of compensation for crops damage in the region.
"Locals have raised the issues of PoK refugees of 1971 and 1965. The PDP-BJP government dumped the package which was approved during the Congress regime," Chand said, adding that the villagers also urged him to get the area denotified as a firing range.