Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 5: Former Chief Ministers, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti today met the families whose houseboats were gutted in a massive blaze that raged in Nigeen Lake while praising them for evacuating the tourists by risking their lives.
Mehbooba Mufti who reached Nigeen to meet the affected families said that the families deserve all the praise for the timely evacuation of the tourists by risking their lives.
“They deserve to be praised for saving the lives of the tourists. The officials should come here and direct for the necessary cleaning and assistance of the affected families,” she said.
She demanded that the affected families should be given soft loans and should be helped with wood so that they could rebuild their houseboats.
“Every possible help should be extended to them while the LG-led administration needs to take note of it immediately,” she said.
On the other hand, the NC-Vice President, Omar Abdullah has said that his father and member of Parliament from Srinagar, Dr Farooq Abdullah highlighted the incident during the Zero Hour in parliament and urged the Government for necessary compensation.
“Visited Nageen lake to meet the owners of the houseboats that were gutted in a recent fire. The owners ensured that all the tourists were evacuated safely even though that meant they weren’t able to shift some of the boats away from the path of the fire,” Omar tweeted.
In a statement issued here, NC said that Dr Farooq Abdullah asked Government to extend every possible help to houseboat owners in Nigeen Lake in Srinagar.
“He impressed upon the ministry of tourism to come to the rescue of houseboat owners, whose houseboats were gutted in a devastating blaze the other day in the Nigeen Lake in Srinagar. He asked the concerned ministry to help the affected owners by providing them with subsidised wood and other required items,” the statement said.
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