Landslide hits Duksar hamlet in Ramban
Sanjeev K Sharma
JAMMU, Feb 19: Thirteen residential structures of Duksar hamlet in Dalwa area of Gool Sub-Division in Ramban district were badly damaged after a landslide hit the area rendering about 70 people including children homeless.
A graveyard was also excessively damaged in the natural calamity and a body which was buried there recently was shifted to another place of burial.
However, one residential structure in the hamlet was safe till last reports but the residents were shifted to safer location and information revealed in last reports claimed that the slide that started on Friday was still going on. Click here to watch video
Luckily no cattle or human suffered any injury or loss of life as residents of the hamlet were evacuated much before the landslide struck.
“In a timely action by the administration all the residents of landslide hit Duksar hamlet were shifted to safer place as the administration was already alert regarding the calamity,” Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Gool, Tanveer-ul-Majeed Wani told the Excelsior adding: “The evacuated people have been provided with tents, blankets and utensils from Red Cross.”
He informed that the affected hamlet was already put in risk zone as cracks were developing in the land there.
The SDM said that agricultural land belonging to the affected families that lived in the damaged houses was also damaged in the area.
“Till there is no permanent settlement of sliding, the agricultural land in Duksar will be of no use and the administration will also not let the people to go there for agricultural activities by then,” he maintained.
SDM Wani further said: “We have also written to the Geological Survey of India to find reasons for the sliding in the area.”
He said that a 200 meter stretch of GREF (General Reserve Engineering Force) road in the area has also been damaged by the landslide but an alternate route has been made available for the people.
An official order in this regard by the SDM Gool stated that in order to safeguard lives of the affected families and the pedestrians and vehicles plying on the affected portion of Gool-Sangaldhan GREF road, it is expedient that movement of people towards the damaged houses and vehicles plying on the affected sliding areas is hereby stopped till further orders.
The order further mentioned that vehicles plying towards Gool may take Dharam Salbala road for hassle free movement.
“Tehsildar Gool and SDPO Gool shall ensure that the order is implemented in letter and spirit,” the SDM had stated.
“However, there is no more area in risk zone near the affected hamlet as far as landslide is concerned,” Wani claimed.
He said that till yesterday five houses were damaged by the landslide but today eight more residential structures were hit in the area.
The official order of SDM Gool stated that the 13 affected families were headed by Mohd. Shafi, son of Fazal Din; Mohd. Rafi, son of Kema; Fayaz Ahmed, son of Mohammad Shreif; Saadu, son of Gulama; Mohammad Altaf, son of Mohammad Shafi; Fareed Ahmed, son of Rushtam Hajam; Hanefa Begum, widow of Mohammad Ashraf; Basheer, son of Gulama; Mohammad Farooq, son of Qasim Din; Jamal Din, son of Bala; Mohammad Ashraf, son of Mohammad Shafi; Mohammad Qasim, son of Bela and Abdul Gani, son of Abdul Sattar.
The house of one Abdul Rasheed son of Alia was safe till last reports but was under the threat of slide.
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