Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, July 10: Senior State vice president, National Conference and former Minister, Surjeet Singh Slathia, today toured extensively flood-hit areas of Vijaypur Assembly Constituency and took stock of the damages caused by incessant and torrential rains for the past two days.
Expressing solidarity with the sufferers, the former minister castigated the PDP-BJP Government for remaining complacent to the problems being confronted by the rain-hit people and called upon the administration to take immediate steps for shifting the people to safer areas wherever there is threat of house collapses.
Slathia visited Rangoor Camp, Kamore and Nanga villages, which have been worst hit by the rains and assured the suffering people that NC will knock every door to ensure that they get all possible assistance to meet the situation. He said the administration was largely in a state of inertia due to political uncertainty as a result of which the people were on receiving end.
The senior NC leader urged the local administration to carry out immediate survey of the losses suffered by the people and provide them preliminary assistance till cases for payment of compensation are processed. He also sought all necessary assistance for those who have abandoned their homes for the fear of collapse due to rains.
Slathia stressed the need for restoration of various utility services, especially the road network and power and drinking water supply, and called for synergized initiatives by the concerned departments to steer the people out of morass. He also called for devising contingency plans to meet such situations during the upcoming monsoon season.
He also urged the Government to take immediate steps for raising protection bunds along River Basanter to save the agricultural fields in its periphery.
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