Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Sept 13: Expressing solidarity with the victims of the large scale devastation caused by landslides in various villages of Ramnagar constituency, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman-JKNPP and Former Minister lambasted the Government for its abject failure in providing succour to the affected people.
He said that massive landslides had washed away residential houses, agricultural fields, orchards and standing crops in specially in the villages of Rasli Gaderan, Gandh Top of Tehsil Basantgarh with the concerned authorities acting as mute spectators with no action taken for relief or rehabilitation of the poor inhabitants of the affected area.
He said that over a dozen of houses, both Pacca and Kacha, had been reduced to debris in the said villages and agricultural fields and orchards got perished in the worst hit catastrophe throwing the life of the poor farmers out of gear. Singh was on the whirlwind tour of Gandh Top area of Tehsil Basantgarh in Ramnagar constituency today.
While distributing relief among the devastated victims of the worst hit landslides in Gandh Top area of Rasli Gaderan, Singh said that tragic destruction of houses in the area could have been easily averted by timely intervention of Government functionaries who failed to act despite repeated public clamours.
On the occasion, Raj Pratap Singh, youth leader of Panthers Party distributed Rs 10,000 to the victims whose houses were damaged due to the landslides. The Panther volunteers also distributed flour, rice, cereals, edible oil, soya nutri, gas burners with regulators among the victims.
Reiterating demand of immediate relief and rehabilitation of affected families, Singh called for immediate evaluation of the damages and early payment of compensation to all those affected by the tragic incidents.
He further called for a judicial probe into the criminal negligence of various Government departments that had failed to respond to the repeated calls of villagers and had completely ignored the said remote areas in implementing the various welfare schemes envisaged for such areas.
Prominent among those who accompanied Singh included Shiv Dev Singh, Surinder Chouhan, Pushvinder Singh, Baldev Chand, Sher Singh, Pawan Rassal, Abdul Rashid Wani, Mohit Mankotia, Pranav Gupta, Vicky Bhandral, Sahil Sharma, Mohammad Hanief, Bashir Ahmed, Ajay Singh and Sagar Chand.
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