UDHAMPUR, May 29 -- Wife and two little daughters of a contractual driver who died while on duty a year back are on the verge of facing starvation and other miseries of hard live.

Kanika, wife of the deceased driver informed that his husband Sanjeev Kumar worked for 22 long years with the PHE Department and last year he died in a road accident while he was taking the water tanker to Sankari Mela at Pancheri in Udhampur district. "Initially we were told by the department officers not to register a case against the department and we were promised a job while also assured of other help from the department but nothing like that ever happened even after the lapse of a year," she told Early Times. Kanika also informed that there are numerous suc...