Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 27: BJP MP Rajya Sabha, Gulam Ali Khatana today urged LG Manoj Sinha to increase the number of vehicles allotted to each district in Kashmir region for transhumance of Tribal population to plains.
A number of people from Tribal population called MP Gulam Ali Khatana telephonically and narrated their woes due to sudden onset of Winters and snowfall in upper reaches of Kashmir region. They informed him that due to extreme cold, many of them have suffered loss of live stock.
Acting immediately on the problems of Nomadic Tribes, MP Gulam Ali Khatana called Secretary Tribal Affairs Department, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir Vijay Bidhuri, and Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag to mitigate the problems of nomadic population and increase the number of vehicles for transportation of livestock.
Secretary Tribal Affairs, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary instructed the Nodal Officer of the Department to immediately resolve the issue and also spoke to MD J&K State Transport Road Corporation to provide the number of vehicles projected by respective DCs.
Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag too asked ARTO, Anantnag to depute more vehicles for the district.
Nomadic population hailed the immediate intervention of MP Gulam Ali Khatana to mitigate their sufferings. They also hailed PM Narendra Modi’s liberal approach towards Jammu and Kashmir and efforts to ameliorate the sufferings of the common masses.
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