جنوبی کشمیر کے ضلع پلوامہ کو پانی کے شدید بحران کا سامنا کیوں ہے؟

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پلوامہ اور بڈگام کے لوگ گزشتہ کئی سالوں سے ایک دوسرے پر رومشی نالہ کے پانی کا رخ موڑنے کا الزام عائر کررہے ہیں۔

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00:00Fulfill our demands.

00:04Give us back our water.

00:08Justice, we want justice.

00:12Give us back our water.

00:19This is the last village of District Pulwama.

00:22There is no settlement beyond this.

00:27Our biggest problem is water.

00:31We have requested our administration for this for the past 3-4 years.

00:36Our main problem is water.

00:39It has been diverted to Badgam district.

00:42Even though they had a contract in the past few years,

00:47they are taking advantage of it and converting our water to Badgam district.

00:53We don't want them to take it.

00:56They have a 2% right for 3 months.

00:59But they are taking it for a year.

01:02This is not fair.

01:05In 1962, we had a contract with them to give them 8% water.

01:10But then there was a problem.

01:13Our last agreement was in 2003 between two deputy commissioners.

01:18We have the document signed by CM Mufti Muhammad Sajid.

01:22Then it was finalized that they will get 2% water and we will get 8%.

01:26But then the district employees of Badgam

01:30diverted all our water to them.

01:33We are very worried.

01:36We don't even have a drop of water.

01:39We are 35 km away from Pulwama.

01:42We couldn't go to Pulwama.

01:44We want you to take us to the district commission.

01:47Actually, we have a dam in Pulwama called Ramshi Nala.

01:52The people of Badgam gave us water from there.

01:55It's not that the people of Badgam don't have water.

01:58They have their own water.

02:00For example, the water from Ramshi Nala is coming from Doodh Ganga.

02:03And the water from Hakraji Yadav is coming from there.

02:06The water we gave them was only for irrigation.

02:09If they would have taken the water, we wouldn't have had to worry.

02:14Now we don't have water to drink.

02:18In 1957, the administration of Pulwama decided to divide the water.

02:28Accordingly, if 10% of the water is distributed,

02:321% will go to Badgam district and 9% to Pulwama district.

02:36But unfortunately, the irrigation department of Pulwama

02:41has distributed all the water to Badgam district.

02:46Right now, in Rajpura and Kanak Chulsi,

02:51people don't have enough water to drink.

02:55The biggest reason for this is that the irrigation department of Badgam district

03:05has distributed all the water to their district.

03:08And the water from Ramshi Nala has dried up.

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