Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 5: Expressing his deep concern over the massive destruction caused to fruit industry due to heavy hailstorm and windstorm in various parts of the State last evening, the J&K Pradesh Congress Committee president, Gh Ahmad Mir has sought adequate compensation in favour of the affected farmers and fruit growers.
In a statement issued today, the PCC chief has said that the unprecedented hailstorm has played havoc to the fruit production affecting badly the livelihood of thousands of farmers who need to be compensated adequately for their sustenance. He said this natural calamity has destroyed almost the entire fruit industry, which is the main stay of State’s economy. He has enjoined upon the concerned officers of the agriculture, horticulture and revenue authorities to act fast to assess the quantum of colossal loses so that volume of compensation and relief cold be worked out at the earliest.
“All of us have to rise to the occasion and come to the rescue of the affected fruit growers and farmers,” Mr Mir has asserted.
He has asked the concerned officers to deliver with a sense of social obligation adding the Congress party both at Central and State level would leave no stone unturned in this regard.
Lambasting the PDP-BJP Coalition Government for its utter failure to infuse sense of security among the people, the PCC leader said that the entire populace in the State especially in Kashmir, Leh, Kargil, Doda, Kishtwar, Reasi, Ramban, Rajouri and Poonch districts are gripped in panic triggered by massive landslides and house collapse causing death and destruction to life and property. He said every where there is hue and cry about deaths due to landslides adding that the inefficiency of the administration to deal with the grim situation has added to the woes of the victims.
He has ridiculed the PDP-BJP coalition for its failure to restore Srinagar -Jammu National Highway which has further compounded the problem leaving the people high and sundry. He said that the Government seems to be in deep slumber as it was irresponsive to the plight of the affected people. He said administration is watching the situation as mute spectator. He said no department has come forward in its full form to address the miseries of the people affected due to untimely incessant rains and hailstorm for reasons better known to the authorities at the helm of affairs. “There seems no coordination between the ministries and the concerned executing agencies and the people of the State have been left at the mercy of press statements only,” the PCC president lamented.
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