GANDERBAL: Hundreds of vehicles including tourist vehicles were Wedensday stranded after the residents of Goose Mohalla Akhal a woody area in Kangan, blocked the Srinagar-Leh National highway to protest against the Public Health Engineering (PHE) department for failing to provide adequate water supply to them. The protesting residents assembled at the highway near Boys higher secondary School in Kangan and blocked it for almost three hours while chanting anti-department slogans.
The villagers alleged that during the holy month of Ramzan no drinking water is available in their supply water pipe lines due to unknown reasons from past some months .They shouted slogans against the PHE department and their officers. Eye-witnesses said that hundreds of vehicles were seen stranded after the residents of Goose Mohalla Akhal in Kangan held a sit-in including women on the highway for three hours. Meanwhile, the agitated villagers called off their protest only after the successful talk with SDM.