Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 31: Expressing serious concern over the tardy response shown by the Government of India vis-à-vis natural calamities faced by the Jammu and Kashmir, CPI (M) leader and MLA Kulgam Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami has called for an immediate intervention from the Prime Minister’s office to meet the imminent flood threat looming over Kashmir.
In a statement issued here today, Tarigami said that seven months have passed since the last devastating floods struck the Valley, the Government of India is yet to approve the financial package for rehabilitation of flood hit people proposed by the previous Government. “When Government of India acted without any delay in flood hit Uttrakhand why is it delaying the rehabilitation of flood victims of Jammu and Kashmir particularly the traders who have lost their dwellings and the bread and butter? Unfortunately there is brewing perception among the flood stricken people here that Jammu and Kashmir is a no priority State for the Government of India,” Tarigami observed.
Referring to the devastation caused by river Jhelum’s major and turbulent tributary Veshu that washed away villages and cultivatable land in south Kashmir, particularly in Kulgam district last September, Tarigami urged the present dispensation in the State to depute a team of experts to come out with a disaster preventive strategy in the district.
While expressing deep shock and grief over the deaths caused by the landslide in Budgam district, the CPI (M) leader took a strong exception to the delayed response in evacuation shown by the administration. He said that many deaths could have been prevented, if the administration would have acted promptly and evacuated the vulnerable families in the area. Tarigami also demanded immediate disbursement of ex-gratia amount to the families who have lost their near and dear ones in the landslides.
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