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| Omar clueless about how to deal with crisis | | People fear worst, essentials vanish | | | Fazal Khan
SRINAGAR, Sept 13: As the Kashmir remained cut-off for the ninth running day today due to ravaging floods that submerged south and central Kashmir smartly dressed Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah remained clueless about how to deal with the crisis.
For the past few days he is appearing regularly on the TV channels and is expressing his helplessness to deal with the situation. "How can he (Omar) help us when he himself is so helpless," said a survivor.
He said that in this hour of crisis Omar should have led from the front and should have approached all the states for help. "Someone needs to ask the Chief Minister during past nine days what has he done except g... | |
| | | | IAF chopper pelted with stones; over 130,000 rescued, 43 dead in Kashmir | | KASHMIR FLOODS | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 13: When calamity strikes, it doesn't discriminate. This was on ample display when floods ravaged Kashmir. Along with civilian population, security forces deployed here from various parts of the country were also hit badly.
They lost their belongings and their weapons were damaged or left useless after water entered their camps across the Kashmir Valley.
Hundreds of AK rifles, INSAS rifles and SLR rifles, along with their ammunition, are still submerged at v... | |
| | | | We will do our job: Army | | | |
Neha
JAMMU, Sept 13: Disturbing reports of stone pelting and attacks on security forces involved in the rescue operations by some rogue elements are regularly emanating from Srinagar, most parts of which are still under water and where about four lakh people are still trapped and struggling for their life. These attacks are, as per credible sources, being provoked by separatists. It is heartening to note that the Army and other forces involved in the rescue and relief operations continue to save the lives of the people surmounting all odds, including threat to their own life.
That our armed forces are committed to save the humanity can be seen from what Air Commoder Balachandran said th... | |
| | | | SGPB proposes relief initiatives in valley, DC disposes | | Worst on the part of administration! | | | K Koushal
Jammu, Sept 13: Hiding its incompetence, the District Administration Jammu has not endorsed a humane act by the State Gurudwara Prabandhak Board (SGPB) to help the flood victims of the Kashmir valley.
SGPB had come with a proposal of providing ration and other needy stuffs to one lakh flood victims per day provided the land for this humane act be provided by the district administration in Srinagar with the consultation of Deputy Commissioner Jammu, Ajit Kumar Sahu but in a sorry state of affairs, the same plan was put into dustbin when Sahu said he was unable to consult the higher ups due to problems in communication.
See the apathetic attitude of the district administration th... | |
| | | | Srinagar localities still under deep waters | | Fear of epidemic looms large | | | Bashir Assad
SRINAGAR, Sept 13: Six to seven feet of water is still there in the major residential areas of Srinagar like Rajbagh, Jawahar Nagar, Gogji Bagh, Wazirbagh, Tulsibagh, Balgarden and Karan Nagar. In these areas, carcasses of animals can be seen floating in hundreds as a result of which the fear of epidemic is looming large. The state administration and J&K Police are still nowhere to be seen. This is the scene of the capital city 10 days after the devastating floods.
The rescue teams battling the tough conditions are of the Army, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and volunteers from higher reaches of Kashmir. The anger of the affected people is now directed towards the st... | |
| | | | Yasin Malik snatches NDRF boat | | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 13: Separatist leader Yasin Malik and his supporters today snatched a boat from an NDRF team in the Lal Chowk-Maisuma area and took it away. Interestingly, the separatist leaders of the state, who are otherwise always looking for ways to stay in news, are missing from action as much as the state administration and the police.
It must be noted here that Bilal Gani Lone of People's Conference established a relief camp at his Sanant Nagar residence on September 12. Medical teams are at work in this relief camp, checking flood victims and distributing medicines.... | |
| | | | Omar govt fails to sanction faculty for AYUSH units | | All units are running on arrangement basis since 2009 | | | Bijay Charak
JAMMU, Sept 13: The state coalition government has failed to sanction faculty for Ayurveda Yoga Unani Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) units in Jammu and Kashmir even after five years of the establishment of these units.
Well placed sources told Early Times, the units across the state were established in 2009, but posts of faculty have not been sanctioned so far. It is pertinent to mention here that the state government has earned praise at National platform for serving its citizens, but on the contrary to this nothing has been done to strengthen health care facilities.
Sources said that the state government had established 17 AYUSH units in all major government run Allopathic ... | |
| | | | Omar clueless about how to deal with crisis | | People fear worst, essentials vanish | | | Fazal Khan
SRINAGAR, Sept 13: As the Kashmir remained cut-off for the ninth running day today due to ravaging floods that submerged south and central Kashmir smartly dressed Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah remained clueless about how to deal with the crisis.
For the past few days he is appearing regularly on the TV channels and is expressing his helplessness to deal with the situation. "How can he (Omar) help us when he himself is so helpless," said a survivor.
He said that in this hour of crisis Omar should have led from the front and should have approached all the states for help. "Someone needs to ask the Chief Minister during past nine days what has he done except g... | |
| | | | Where are our worthy Ministers? | | CM's problem | | |
Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 13: On Thursday, NC working president and Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said, "For the first 24 to 36 hours that was my question (Where's the Government?). Can you remember a single natural disaster that took out the capital city? I had no Government. I started rebuilding efforts with six people in a room". He expressed his helplessness when told that "there was no sign of the Government in response to the massive humanitarian crisis". Actually, he told a private news channel that "My Government couldn't respond in the first 24 hours as we didn't have a Government".
Omar Abdullah didn't speak the whole truth. The fact of the matter is that his governmen... | |
| | | | J&K Ministers visiting Delhi not less than a joke............... | | | | Sandeep Bhat
JAMMU, Sept 13: When the state of Jammu and Kashmir is facing a serious flood conditions, and only chief minister Omar Abdullah is visible on television, the ministers of state after 10 days are seen talking to media persons in Delhi is not less than a joke. What they want to prove now after remaining underground for over a week. These seven ministers had asked central government to declare the floods as national calamity, but either these ministers are ignorant or ill informed as Union home minister Rajnath Singh has already stated that it is a national calamity and it is because of central assistance, there is rescue and relief work going in Kashmir. Talking to Early Times, ... | |
| | | | Building flood devastated infrastructure may take 6 months | | Let Assembly election in J&K be held under Governor's rule | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 13: If left to Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, the Assembly elections may not be postponed in Jammu and Kashmir. But Omar Abdullah is not the real authority to decide whether the election should be held as per the schedule or postpone it.
Infact the situation has materially changed in the state because of the unprecedented death and devastation caused by the floods and landslides. Already major areas in the Kashmir valley are under water during the last 12 days and various hilly areas in the region of Jammu, including Reasi, Rajouri, Doda Kishtwar and parts of Udhampur are cut off from the state's winter capital, Jammu. In addition to this over six lakh peop... | |
| | | | Attempts being made to demoralise honest bureaucrats | | They have been given unimportant assignments | | | Arun Singh
Jammu, Sept 13: The otherwise efficient officials, who are known for bringing transparency, delivering fast public services and checking corruption in their respective departments, are being sidelined as they have been transferred to the departments where they cannot fully utilise their abilities. Sources told Early Times that the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act, was introduced in Jammu and Kashmir in 2008 and accordingly Jammu and Kashmir Building and Other Construction Welfare Board was established in 2011 after framing rules and Syed Muried Hussain Shah was appointed its first Chief Executive Officer/Secretary who with his vision and farsightedness ... | |
| | | | Hit Hard by Kashmir Floods, Security Forces Enagaged in Relief Work | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 13: When calamity strikes, it does not discriminate. This was on ample display when floods ravaged Kashmir.
Along with civilian population, security forces deployed here from various parts of the country were also hit badly. They lost their belongings and their weapons were damaged or left useless after water entered their camps across the Kashmir Valley.
Hundreds of AK rifles, INSAS rifles and SLR rifles, along with their ammunition, are still submerged at various places across the Kashmir Valley, so are bombs, hand grenades etc. Some reports said 26 AK rifles from an army camp have been washed away in the floods. In the area of Gogji Bagh in uptown S... | |
| | | | Even after 2 weeks of floods, water supply remain affected in various localities | | Muddy Tawi water reduces filtration plants' capacity, shortall of 12 MGD daily | | | G S Asgotra
Jammu, Sep 13: Because of the recent floods, the muddy Tawi water has become a hiccup for Public Health Engineering (PHE) department, virtually reducing the capacity of all filtration plants and creating a shortfall of 12 million gallons per day (MGD), while water supply in various localities has still been disrupted.
Though the PHE department has been claiming to have restored all tubewells and six filtration plants, intaking water from river Tawi, but despite restoration, various localities have been facing water scarcity.
Officials in the PHE department informed Early Times that the requirement of potable water for Jammu city was around 47.5 million gallons per day but t... | |
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