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Flood Relief: Jammu region suffers more loss but gets raw deal 9/29/2014 11:02:17 PM Early Times Report JAMMU, Sept 29:Jammu division, which has suffered more loss both in terms of the lives and infrastructure as compared to Kashmir, has got a raw deal from the administration till now. Chief minister Omar Abdullah has, except one sortie to Poonch, not bothered to visit the affected areas to meet the people there. The details provided by the state government tells the truth. A total of 281 lives have been lost in floods. Of them, 196 were lost in Jammu province and 85 in Kashmir valley. 29 persons, reported missing in floods, also belong to Jammu region. The state government has till now been focusing on Kashmir only and more specifically in Srinagar. Even as the valley has suffered huge loses, the losses in terms of death and infrastructure are much more in Jammu. Unlike the Srinagar city, where people are well connected and powerful, the people of remote Jammu areas are not getting their voices heard. In the worst incident of floods and landslide, an entire village in Panjar was washed away. The CM didn't make any attempt to reach there. The CM, who was making regular sorties between technical airport, Srinagar, and his Gupkar residence and was taking even TV reporters to drop relief material, could have made at least an aerial survey of Panjar but he did not bother. The CM has not even made the survey of the areas where he could have gone easily by road. In the vicinity of Jammu, many areas were hit and lives were shattered but Omar decided to look other way and ironically he was not even serious in handling the situation in Kashmir itself. "The Centre knew all this. And, it's for this reason it decided to keep a tab on the destruction in the Jammu region and would also see that Jammu region gets its due share in rebuiliding," said a senior official.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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