Share your story and shine at JK Monitor!🌟 Welcome to JK Monitor, where every story matters and every achievement is celebrated! We invite you to share the remarkable journey of your life and showcase your accomplishments to the world. Join our exclusive interviews that honor exceptional individuals just like you. JAMMU: Former Minister and senior Congress leader Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma has demanded a comprehensive package from the Central Government to deal with the grave situation caused by incessant rains, cloudbursts, and flash floods in the Jammu region. Sharma made this demand ahead of Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to the region.
The recent floods have resulted in the loss of precious human lives and large-scale damage to homes, agriculture, business, and public infrastructure. Sharma highlighted that the devastation is beyond the financial capacity of the Union Territory Government and outside the purview of SDRF norms.
Sharma has urged the Central Government to declare the calamity a "National Disaster".- Sanction a Comprehensive Relief and Rehabilitation Special Package to enable immediate assistance and long-term rehabilitation. Provide immediate compensation and provision of free ration for at least six months to farmers who have lost standing crops and livestock. Offer adequate support to families whose houses and belongings have been damaged, including repair grants for partially damaged dwellings.Provide revival assistance to businesses, shops, and small-scale industries that have been hit hard.Provide compensation to educational institutions that have sustained significant damage to restore normal functioning.
Sharma emphasized the urgent need for restoration and upgradation of public infrastructure, particularly in the water supply, power, sewerage, and drainage sectors. He also stressed the need for desilting of drains and nallahs on a war footing to avert health and sanitation risks.Sharma proposed dredging and channelization of major rivers such as the Chenab, Jammu Tawi, and Balol Nallah, along with tributaries in Rajouri, Poonch, Udhampur, Samba, and Kathua, which repeatedly cause floods every few years.
Sharma demanded that MPs and MLAs surrender their respective Constituency Development Funds (CDF) to deal with the devastating floods in the Jammu region.Sharma emphasized that only a central intervention through a national disaster declaration and special package can adequately address the crisis, provide relief to affected families, and build resilience against recurring calamities.
