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Written by: JK Monitor News Network

Category: ENVIRONMENT

Published: 21 July 2023

UDHAMPUR: Vice Chairperson, District Development Council Udhampur, Juhi Pathania has called for a pro active approach, while assessing and processing the relief cases for damages caused due to incessant rains and flash-floods. She was speaking at a meeting of senior officers of local administration, PRIs and prominent people in Khoon.

 Excessive landslides caused whopping losses to houses, roads, public infrastructure and animal stock of people. Pathania issued instructions for immediate restoration of civil supplies and meeting the shortage of essential commodities like LPG, kerosene, household articles and power and clean drinking water.  

 Mrs. Pathania, while making a fervent appeal, has sought unfolding of immediate crash measures so as to restore power, drinking water, ration supplies and spur up human and animal healthcare facilities in the area to mitigate the miseries and hardships of the people.

While taking up the cases projected by locals/PRIs regarding house collapses due to landslides, she called for immediately processing the relief cases under SDRF. She also called for clearing Gadena to Kutt, Babey to Laa, Jagwal to Jansal roads. She took a strong note of the slipshod execution of work by contractor agencies under JJM schemes whereby the personal land holdings of the people have been ripped apart and damaged. She called for immediately making good these damages.

While dealing with potential threats of erosion to houses of people due to incessant rains, she called for immediate provision of protection works by RDD and Irrigation & Flood Control department. She called upon the PRIs to come up with respective cases of losses to their properties in their respective areas.

The meeting was also addressed by Dina Nath Bhagat, Chairman, BDC Majalta, who was all praise for quick follow up of local administration. The administration was represented by Uttam Singh Palsar, Tehsildar Majalta, Vishal Kumar, BDO Majalta/Khoon, Pushpender Singh, SHO Majalta and several other officials of different line departments.

Prominent among those who addressed the meeting included  Ramesh Chander Gupta, Sarpanch Khoon;  Mohan Lal, Sarpanch S.K.Bair; Monika Devi, Sarpanch Battal;  Sunita Devi, Sarpanch Dhamma; Manoj Kumar, Sarpanch Bilaspur;  Raman Khajuria, Sarpanch Sundla; Hans Raj Sarpanch, Jansal; Surinder, Sarpanch C-Panjian; Nimrata  Bali, Naib Sarpanch Khoon; Captain Gopal Singh Mankotia,  Shiv Ram,  Ved Sharma and others.