Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR June 18: The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry in a special meeting of its Executive Committee today demanded that Central Government should allow international donors for rehabilitating flood victims of the State.
The Chamber said in view of the inability of the Sate Government in getting justice for its people and the Government of India’s abject failure in providing relief and rehabilitation measures, it has decided to appeal to Government of India to allow International Donors including Kashmir Diaspora abroad to send aid to the Kashmir directly to enable them to get rehabilitate the people.
“Under the circumstances the international aid is the only option left for the people of Kashmir to mitigate their suffering”, the Chamber said.
The KCC&I expressed deep resentment over the Flood Rehabilitation Package announced by the Central Government.
The meeting expressed shock over biased and discriminatory attitude of Central Government by applying a different yardstick to the damages suffered by the people of Kashmir when compared to the Uttarakand who under similar circumstances were granted Rs 7 lakh for a damaged house while as only Rs 1.5 lakh in case of Kashmir.”
The meeting said that the loss is estimated at about Rs one lakh Crores by experts, 44000 crores by the State Government and Rs. 21800 crores by the World Bank through its initial Quick Assessment Report although the final assessment could have been done by the World Bank through Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) which actually will be more than Rs One lakh crore besides the fact that World Bank and ADB in their empirical studies have found out that the indirect and secondary cost of disaster may be more than 2 ½ times the cost of direct losses.
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