Excelsior Correspondent
KISHTWAR, Dec 16: Senior Congress leader and MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori visited Khawjgam, Hurna area of tehsil Mugalmaidan in Inderwal constituency and distributed relief among the fire victims, whose houses were gutted in a devastating fire yesterday.
MLA Inderwal also announced Rs 1 lakh from his CDF for fire incident and gave Rs 10,000 to priest of the temple as a compensation for the construction of a shed in the temple premises. Besides this, Saroori also gave Rs 5,000 each to the owner of the two residential houses whose houses were gutted yesterday namely Bagh Chand and Malal Singh, resident of Chanser Mugalmaidan.
Tehsildar Mugalmaidan Irshad Ahmed, BDO Mugalmaidan Mohsin Raza, TSO Chatroo Tariq Munshi, SHO Ravi Kant, Tariq Wani, Bidya Lal, Somnath, Santosh Kumar, Pershant Bhandari and other officials of the Sub-Division Chatroo were present on the occasion.
While speaking, Saroori assured them all support in reorganizing their shattered lives and a temple of the village.
Saroori said that he has already directed Tehsildar Mugalmaidan to prepare a comprehensive report about the damages/losses so that adequate compensation can be given to the victims. Essential things like ration, blankets were also distributed to the fire sufferers. He assured the general public that a thorough probe will be conducted in the incident.
Later, a meeting of Rogi Kalyan Simiti (RKS) Committee was held under the chairmanship of MLA Inderwal GM Saroori at Primary Health Centre, Nali Bunjwah. The main thrust of the meeting was to identify the problems faced by the patients and to bring improvement in facilities being provided in the PHCs, sub-centres of Tehsil Bunjwah.
MLA asked health officers to ensure better health facilities in these institutions for the patients.
Earlier, Doctors appraised MLA about various problems in the health institutions and sought his intervention for improvement in the facilities.
The meeting was attended by Dr Sajid Incharge MO, Dr Murtaza Ali Dental Surgeon, Dr Tasatuq Amin MO, Dr Haroon Rashid MO, Amit Kumar Sen BM and EO block Kishtwar and others.
Saroori also held party workers meeting at Pathshalla, Eythwan, Nali, Chakroon Binoon, Kewa, Pattadal areas of Bunjwah. Besides this, various deputations also met MLA Inderwal and appraised him about their problems.