Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 24: BJP National Vice-President, Member of Parliament & Incharge J&K Avinash Rai Khanna, along with State vice-president & MLA Sat Sharma (C.A) and Leh district president Dr. Sonam Dawa, visited the cloudburst areas in Nubra Valley for on spot assessment of the losses and met the affected people there.
The BJP leaders toured a number of places, where houses, roads and other means of communication got damaged due to the recent incidents of cloudbursts.
Mr Khanna, while expressing sympathies with the affected families, said that this natural calamity has badly hit the residential houses, shops, means of communication and has created serious problems for the life of the people. He said that although we cannot control such natural calamities but can extend helping hand in getting the damaged houses, roads and other public utilities repaired. “To ameliorate the hardship and suffering of the common people, we can take up such cases with the concerned authorities so that timely relief and compensation is provided and further added that he himself will raise the matter at the centre and make every possible effort to ensure that some package is announced for the cloudburst affected areas”.
Sat Sharma said that the BJP led NDA Government at the Centre and the coalition Government in Jammu & Kashmir are working on agenda of development, good governance, ending corruption and an era of development has started. “Here in desert region also equal treatment is given in all spheres and at all levels and the affected families of the cloudburst incidents will also be compensated suitably”, Sharma said and added that he himself will take up the issue with the State Government.
Avinash Rai Khanna and Sat Sharma also took up the issue of damaged roads and other communication amenities with the Border Roads Organization (BRO) and directed the senior officials of this agency to make the roads functional at the earliest so that the inflow of the tourists from other parts of the country and Abroad is not affected and people are spared the hardship of loss of avenues of livelihood.
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