Many of the reasons for recent floods in Kashmir were man-made like encroachments, followed lack of action by this inefficient government. A recent newspaper report exposed how the committee constituted by Supreme Court on recent Kashmir floods and the following relief and rescue efforts had recorded damning allegations on corruption against a sitting National Conference MLA (of Amira Kadal). The said NC MLA is reported to have allowed ‘his friend construct a house on state land in Raj Bagh, in lieu for money (land grabber claims to have paid 18 lacs to MLA)’. After grabbing state land, they did not allow the close by dewatering pumps to function thereby resulting in prolonged flooding of Raj Bagh and adjacent areas. The ned result was loss of hundreds of crores worth of public property and dislocation of countless families due to damaged homes.. Do such corrupt MLA’s and government really claim to be well wishers of common people? (quote) The committee whose members included Registrar General of J&K Suresh Kumar Sharma, High Court Bar Association Kashmir President Mian Abdul Qayoom,M K Bhardwaj from HCBA Jammu and Director , Disaster Management , Ministry of Home Affairs have written in the report submitted to the SC that a dewatering facility in the worst affected Kursoo Rajbagh area was shut down by a close associate of NC MLA Nasir Aslam Wani. “They said that there was a dewatering shed in the locality where there was dewatering pump functional for the last 50 years, but one Munir Ahmad, a close friend of Nasir Aslam Wani, MLA, Amira Kadal constituency has closed the shed and has not allowed any kind of dewatering of the flood water from the area”, the report says on page 23. The reports adds,” They stated that he has constructed a house on the state land and he says that he has paid Rs 18.00 lacs to Nasir Aslam Wani for building the house on the state land. They stated that some dewatering has been done by the people themselves, but the man road is still under flood water”. The reports further adds on page 25,” They stated that no medical camp was established in the area. They stated that no dewatering pump has been provided to them and want that the dewatering pump which was functional for 50 years and has been closed by one Munir Ahmad as the instance of Nasir Aslam Wani, MLA Amira Kadal, Srinagar should be made functional again”. Contrary to the Chief Minister’s claim that a flood alert was sounded in Raj Bagh area, the people told the committee that no warning was given to them by anyone. Interestingly the report which has already been submitted before the Apex Court shreds apart Government claims of providing quick relief and rehabilitation measures. The report goes into detail of every front on which the state government failed the people and follows up the government claims with fact finding mission which revealed that most of the government claims was a bundle of lies. In one of its concluding remarks the report says that as per reports most of the bureaucracy left the state especially Srinagar and those who stayed back remained indoors.” They (Govt officers) were either busy in manufacturing the records or misleading the people. This is exactly what we have seen on ground when we visited certain areas of Srinagar, Anantnag, Pulwama, Kulgam and Poonch. The medical camps which were shown to us to have been established/opened/started were nonexistent on ground, the report said.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:52:47 +0000
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