SRINAGAR: State secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami has criticised the Jammu and Kashmir government for its lack of preparedness while dealing with floods in the Jammu region.
Ten people died and property worth crores of ruppes has been destroyed in floods since last week.
Tarigami said that the “ill-prepared” administration led to a catastrophic effect because of its incapability to handle the first downpour, “let alone what followed these rains”.
“Unfortunately the administration in Jammu and Kashmir wakes up to problems only when they stare at people in the face.”
He said the Government had failed to devise an effective system to respond to the natural calamities despite adopting State Disaster Management Policy about a year ago.
“The disaster management has nothing to offer except for sounding alerts in this state. And the government is busy in politicking and nothing concrete is being done to mitigate the sufferings of flood hit people in the region,” he added.
“The state government approved three-tier Disaster Management Policy has not been able to provide a fool-proof mechanism to rescue, provide relief and rehabilitate flood-hit people in Jammu region.”
The CPI (M) leader said the government also needs to work out rehabilitation of some population from the landslide prone pockets to safer areas so that their sufferings can be done away with.
“Apart from this, people, who have completely lost their houses, need to be compensated immediately so that they can rebuild them at the earliest to overcome the avoidable difficulties.
“Free rations and cash assistance should also be provided at the earliest to help mitigate the sufferings of flood victims,” he said.
