Jammu, April 19 -- When the state machinery works only to preserve a particular regime or group, no advancement to a higher form of society is possible without alterations the state machinery, no matter what representative institutions exist.

Kishtwar has always been at the lowest berth in the developmental agenda as it still lacks basic facilities-health system, water supply and surface connectivity to count the basic infrastructure. Thousands of people from this region of Jammu and Kashmir have died in the absence of above mentioned basic amenities. The concentration of hydro-projects has also affected demographic and geographic aspects of this region. Many people have lost their lives in landslides and floods in the past and it continue...