Excelsior Correspondent
RAM NAGAR, Aug 19: The incessant rains have caused whopping losses to person and property in Sunal, Sundla, Raiper, Bilpasur, Sundla, Muara, Kamtala, Neeli, Bharnara villages.
This was stated by R S Pathania, general secretary, Pradesh Youth Congress, after conducting the tour of the affected areas and has charged that the response of Government as well as local administration has been not up to the mark as neither they have adequate paraphernalia nor the requisite trained manpower to cope up with the crisis.
He said that hundreds of houses have been dashed to the ground due to incessant rainfall whereas landslides have also caused severe loss to the properties, lands and houses. He also questioned the veracity and truthfulness of Government claims about losses in Ramnagar and Majalta areas as the actual damage which has been incurred on ground is much more and above the Government-projected facts and figures.
The affected people have been forced to take refuge in houses of neighbours, relatives or in public places like schools, Panchayat Ghars, Government buildings. Almost all link roads have been closed and road-traffic suspended.
The power, mobile signals, telephone lines and fresh drinking water supply have been suspended. Given the situation in view of unprecedented rainfall in areas of Ramnagar, Majalta and other parts of Udhampur, Chenani, Ghordi and Panchari, and the absence of Government touch over here, threats of a starvation and epidemic break-out are also looming large.
Also there is shortage of essential commodities he made a fervent appeal to the Union Government to dole out Central assistance so that relief and compensation measures could be taken for the affected at the earliest.
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