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| Govt's flood relief measures directionless: Mufti | | Seeks food security, livelihoods for flood-affected people | | Early Times Report
Anantnag, Oct 16: Accusing the Government of restricting its flood relief measures to making elusive announcements and dishing out vague policies, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today called for substantive action on providing shelters to the homeless, ensuring food security, reviving livelihood and restoring economy. Interacting with flood-affected shopkeepers, traders and businessmen here, Sayeed said instead of reaching out to the flood-affected people with substantive relief and rehabilitation measures, the State Government's half-baked policies have created massive confusion among the sufferers.
"Unfortunately, neither there is any clarity on the quantity of free rations to be given to the people, nor there is any clear-cut policy on financial assistance to be provided for damaged houses and business establishments resulting in lot of confusion on the ground," he said and called for an unambiguous policy framework from the Government to help the flood-affected people get back on the move.
Sayeed said although there can be no compensation for the actual losses suffered by the people and the economy of the state because of the devastating floods, the Government should put into place an Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods (ESFL) programme to kick-start livelihood regeneration. "In order to help people pick up threads of life again, the Government while facilitating immediate b settlement of insurance claims, must provide special grants to the uninsured businesses to enable revival of economic activity," he said and added that in the cases involving uninsured businesses, the traders should be given the option of going for self-assessment of the losses which can be then verified by the local bazaar committees.
"And after verification by the local bazaar committees, the government must then compensate all such uninsured businesses," he said and added that this can also have knock-on effect on rehabilitating community-level markets, many of which were closed following the floods, due to lack of money to purchase new stock. |
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