Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 12: District Development Commissioner, Jammu, Ajeet Kumar Sahu today said that large number of persons trapped in the floods were rescued by way of evacuation with help of Army, SDRF/ NDRF, police etc. and also by issuing advance warning.
Evacuated and affected people are kept in various temporary camps and shelters established at various places like Jammu, Akhnoor, Khour, Jourian, RS Pura Bishnah etc. where free food and other facilities including health care have been provided to the affected persons, he added.
Giving details on restoration of essential services and temporary restoration of damages to infrastructure and public utilities caused due to landslides and flash floods during the first week of September, Sahu informed that people living in the Island of Pargwal and Tawi have been provided ration and other essential necessities and teams headed by Tehsildars distributed the ration and other items to the affected families. Besides, free ration has also been provided to the affected families of the District through CAPD. In the process, 600 quintals of Rice, 1200 Quintals of Attta and Sugar have been provided to the affected families as relief free of cost.
In anticipation of spread of waterborne diseases, teams of Health Department organized camps in the flooded area like Nari, Kotli Shahdullaha, Sai, Majeen, Pandorian (Mishiriwala), Gujjar Basti Jourian (Akhnoor), Raipur, Muthi, Thathar, Bantalab, Akalpur in Bhalwall block and other areas where health care facilities and free medicine have also been provided to the affected persons. Necessary awareness camps with regard to the prevention of spreading of diseases have also been organized in different parts of district.
About 50 special teams of officers of Revenue, Rural Development, Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal and Sheep Husbandry Departments have been constituted for making of assessment of damages to the moveable and immoveable properties of the people. Keeping in view the emergent need and suffering of people, DC diverted funds to the tune Rs. 3.00 crore for other account heads to the relief head for providing of immediate relief to the affected families and out of this an amount Rs. 2.00 crore has already been released and placed at the disposal Assistant Commissioner Revenue/SDMs for making of immediate payment of ex-gratia relief to the affected families after processing of their relief cases. Assessment teams have been directed to make the assessment of the damages immediately and submit the report on daily basis.
Teams constituted for making of assessment of damages are visiting the affected areas and have started preparing of relief cases. Ex-gratia relief cheques of Rs.7,30,400 were distributed at a Camp organized at Nagrota by G.N. Balwan, ADDC, Jammu and Sher Singh, ACR, Jammu to 198 families of 8 villages of newly created Tehsil Nagrota whose property have been damaged due to flash floods/landslides.
Special relief camps has also been established where free food and other basic amenities have been provided to the stranded persons.
Regarding road connectivity 440 spot damages to road connectivity in rural areas have been restored fully, 25% damages on 398 spots have been restored partially and rest is being taken up on priority basis besides, out of 541 affected villages/habitations, road connectivity to 436 habitations / villages stand restored partially/fully and efforts are on to complete the job by the end of October 2014.
In Jammu City, 50% water supply has been restored in the affected areas of Old City, Janipur, Sainik Colony, Roop Nagar, Channi Himat, etc. Besides, 52 water tankers have been pressed into services for ensuring water supply in deficient areas.
In rural areas, water supply in 40% affected areas has been restored and rest of the areas are being covered through pressing 35 water tankers into services.
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