JKPCC leaders visit Dooru, assess losses due to incessant rains

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, May 23: A high level team of J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) led by its president GA Mir today visited Dooru, Shahabad, Halsidar, Hangipora, Kapran in Dooru Assembly Constituency to assess the losses caused to inhabitants due to incessant rains, very recently.
The JKPCC president was accompanied by MLC GN Monga, MLA Gulzar Ahmad Wani, Hilal Ahmad Shah, Ali Mohd Mantoo and other senior party leaders of district Anantng.
The team met affected people and got to know the details of the damages, besides the problems confronting the sufferers due to the inundated rains and hailstorm.
Congress leaders were apprised of the overall situation obtaining in the backdrop of the damages caused to crops, orchards and residential houses in various other places in the Constituency also.
While expressing serious concern over the damages caused due to incessant rains, GA Mir lashed out at the J&K Government for failing to reach out to affected. He emphasized that Government must constitute a team of experts, on war footing basis, to make an assessment of the overall damages caused.
He also urged upon the Government to ensure timely compensation to affected people, besides taking immediate measures to rehabilitate fully those families, who have suffered hundred percent losses.