Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 22: National Panthers Party (NPP) Chairman and MLA Ramnagar, Harshdev Singh, has strongly flayed the State Government for inordinate delay in disbursement of compensation and relief to those whose houses and crops had got damaged in floods, rainfall and landslides that occurred in August last.
He said that Government had assured immediate relief and announced a package of Rs 9.95 crore for damages to residential houses, private property, standing crops, land erosion and loss of human lives. He said that the issue for early relief had been agitated in the last Assembly session as well and the Government had assured to supplement the funding for losses suffered by farmers. However, the Government had failed to release even the initially announced amount of Rs 9.95 crore in favour of the affected farmers, he regretted.
Expressing the need for early release of compensation to the eligible farmers, he said that the Government had aggravated their woes due to its false assurances.
The NPP MLA further castigated the State Government for its half hearted survey of the rain hit areas and resultant faulty and flawed statistics collected in pursuance thereof. He said that while the number of collapsed houses far exceeded 10,000 mark in the State, the Government had merely shown the number at 5600 in its records.
Singh further pointed out that even if it was assumed that Government figures on losses were true the Government needed to explain as to how it was going to ensure restoration of said damaged property and compensate for loss of human lives with a paltry sum of Rs. 9.95 crores. Seeking a review of the compensation announced, Singh sought early release of announced sum with further releases of additional amount in conformity with the actual damages suffered by the affected people.
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