Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 3: JKPCC working president Raman Bhalla today said that Rs 209 crores relief- rehabilitation package for the huge losses in the Jammu and Kashmir was just peanuts.
An emergency meeting of District Congress Committee Jammu Urban was held here today at party office to review the ongoing situation arising out of incessant rains and floods affecting large number of people.
While speaking during the meeting Bhalla stock of the situation and expressed great concern over the large number of people getting affected due to unprecedented rains and flash floods in most parts of Jammu province, disrupting the vehicular traffic due to huge landslides and affecting the normal life of people besides causing huge damage to the private and public property.
The meeting took strong exception to the failure of the Centre Govt to announce a mega relief package even after the visit of of Home Minister Amit Shah to Jammu, which is worst affected in the situation caused huge loss of lives including Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrims and Machail Mata.
The meeting strongly criticised the failure of the authorities to take advance decisions regarding the yatra despite clear warnings and Government advisory about the weather situation. The authorities issued alerts and warnings to the people however, Govt didn’t follow the advisory itself leaving the people to face the unfortunate situation.
The Congress leaders also took strong exception to the continued neglect of the general public demand for a high level probe by a sitting or retired judge of the High Court for a free, fair & independent probe to fix responsibility and suggest further guidelines for the same.
Bhalla asked the Govt to immediately announce a mega relief and rehabilitation package for each category of the affected sections of the current situation. He also termed the announcement of Rs 209 crore relief package as a routine share, quite inadequate and peanuts to meets the worst losses.
The speakers asked the cadres to assist the affected people in their surroundings and render all sorts of cooperation to the administration besides acting as bridge between people and authorities.
The meeting was attended by DCC Jammu Urban president Manmohan Singh, Yogesh Sawhney, Rajnish Sharma, Sanjeev Panda, Pawan Dev Singh, Varinder Manhas, Anuradha Sharma, Satpal Sapolia, Rakesh Sharma, Nageshwar Narayan, Adarsh Sharma, Vijay Kumar, Janak Raj, Avtar Krishan, Ram Magotra, Chander Shaker and others.
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