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Devastating flood turns Lal Chowk into ghost city 10/15/2014 10:56:42 PM Majid Nabi SRINAGAR, Oct 15: Kashmir's business hub Lal Chowk has been turned into a ghost town nowadays as the roads and pavements are full of dust and mud with piles of garbage and other wastes lying all over. It has been almost one and a half month after the floods hit Kashmir valley, but the authorities have failed to initiate a cleanliness drive in the grimy city center. From Dalgate to Batamaloo, the roads are filled with heaps of dust and grime while piles of waste material removed out by shopkeepers from their flooded shops and placed on their shop-fronts is stinking there with nobody bothering to take it away. "It seems that the recent floods have also watered down the government machinery as the authorities have failed to clean the city center which will lead to serious problems if immediate steps were not taken to clean up the mess here," Gulam Mohammad Baba, a shopkeeper, whose shop was inundated by the flood waters. He said that one is forced to plug his nose while walking through the mud-spattered roads of the city as the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), except for its hollow claims, has done nothing vis-à-vis cleanliness in the area. Pertinently, flood-waters that wrecked havoc across the state on September 6-7 also swamped Lal Chowk and its surrounding areas leaving business community, who suffered losses worth crores of rupees, in a state of shock. "Government, instead of making just the announcements through radio and television needs to do something serious to tackle the situation created in the aftermath of recent floods," Shabir Ahmad another shopkeeper said and added that how long the people would plug their nose with masks as the government seems least bothered towards cleanliness and much concerned to hold elections for their patty political gains.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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