*Meets rains, landslides-hit families
Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, Sept 24: A team of senior Congress leaders led by former minister and working president od JKPCC Raman Bhalla, alongwith chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma, DCC president Reasi Bhupender Singh Jamwal, working president Sheikh Aiyaz, DDC Mahore Ch Mohammed Israil and others visited remote areas of Mahore and Dharmari in District Reasi today to reach out to the rain and landslides affected people.
The Congress team met the affected people at number of places where large number of houses, shops, agricultural land, Government buildings and road infrastructure has been worst damaged due to heavy rains, landslides, sinking of land putting the lives of the people to great risks apart from casualties of eight persons of this belt.
A large number of people including the prominent political & social leaders, met the Congress leaders and narrated their woes and worst sufferings and complained about the lack of adequate rescue, relief, rehabilitation measures so far.
Their houses are unsafe, lands sinking, crops damaged and few tents to some affected families are quite inadequate and they are worried about relief and rehabilitation, as winter is fast approaching.
Villagers at Sarh in Mahore complained about the criminal negligence of BRO and the contractor company SGiH for not raising retaining walls, burst walls other preventing measures as a result the surrounding houses near under construction road were badly damaged due to landslides. Several times the district administration was apprised about the negligent working of BRO agency but no action was taken.
The team met people at Kanthaan, Chechi Nagar, Purana Jandhar (Dharmari), Chaklas, Mahore, Sarh, Dharmari and various other hamlets where huge damage to land, houses, road connectivity has taken place.
Speaking to people Bhalla regretted that people of entire belt of Mahore, Dharmari are worst affected in the recent rains and expressed deep sympathy with the families of those who lost lives in Baddar area. He regretted that no senior leadership of the ruling party visited the area and the road connectivity was not restored earlier.
He said that Central Government has delayed a comprehensive relief, rehabilitation and restoration package so far and Central Ministers should have visited the area by chopper before to see the worst affected area. Bhalla said that the large number of families are living under threat of damaged houses in the absence of adequate number of tents. He said that in the absence of a comprehensive mega relief package from Centre, the rehabilitation of the affected population is not possible.
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