Fruit growers this week staged protests in the Zainapora area of Shopian after officials started surveying their orchards to earmark land for the proposed Awantipora-Shopian line
Rendered Jobless
Umar Mukhtar
Nizar Ahmad Gannie, 37, a resident of Bellow in Pulwama, is eagerly waiting for the spring to come. He needs work to support his family. Gannie is sitting at home with no work to do for a year. He hopes the spring would bring back the construction activity and with it he would again find work.
Earlier, Gannie was extracting boulders of the nearby
Saas
nallah that flows near his house. “I was young, around 16 years of age since I started extracting boulders and earn my living from it,” Gannie said. “My job was to load the boulders onto tractor trolleys”.