Excelsior Correspondent
RAMBAN, Nov 7: The Dalwass landslide affected families whose residential houses and agricultural land was damaged due to sinking of land in March 2020 have demanded compensation and rehabilitation at safer places.
The victim families claimed that their houses collapsed due to road widening activity of four-lane project at Dalwass on Udhampur-Ramban section on March 28, 2020 after heavy rainfall.
They also alleged that ill-planned earth cutting work by the construction company Gammon India and its subcontractors engaged by NHAI in Dalwass area resulted in collapse of their houses.
About 37 houses had collapsed and around 400 kanal of agricultural land was damaged in the landslide.
The district administration that time had shifted the affected families to safer places in Government School buildings, Panchayat Ghar and some privately rented accommodations.
“That time the administration and management of the Construction Company and NHAI had assured us of providing compensation,” member of a victim family said adding: “After staging several protests revenue officials prepared files of landslide victims and meager compensation of Rs. one lakh was provided to us last year by the administration.”
They said that since the last three years, they have been making rounds of government offices to get compensation for their damaged houses and agricultural land but get only assurances from officers.
However, the revenue department officer said that files for providing compensation to the landslide victims are being prepared.
The victim families have appealed to J&K Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha to intervene.
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