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| Authorities to evacuate fire affected residents of Kishtwar inferno | | | Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Oct 17: Authorities in District administration are planning to evacuate the fire affected residents of Sukhni village of Warwan and house them in rented accommodations in some neighboring villages, G N Balwan, the Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar, who visited the village said after accessing the situation. He said the entire village was decimated by the conflagration.
"There are two or three families which have not lost their homes in the fire," Balwan told Early Times. "All the eighty houses, their cowsheds, their granaries, the mosque and all other public utilities were destroyed." he added.
Balwan said the shocked residents who are also poor may not be able to reconstruct their homes in the next few months. "The only option is to get them out to some safe place and pay for their rent and support their survival till next summer," Balwan said adding that government will pay Rs. 3000 rent to each family for next six months.
The remote Sukhni village is not accessible by any road and the authorities had to fly relief only after the police created a temporary helipad. While IAF Cheetak flew some relief, mostly ration, kitchen ware and the blankets were airlifted today and drop the same to nearby Rikanwas village as IAF chopper face difficulties to land near to the affected families. The state chopper took the ministers and official for on spot visits. Balwan said they will be flying some more relief.
Balwan said 620 people who are currently without shelters. Till the government funds some alternative, the locals living in adjoining villages have housed the women and kids in some of the houses that survived the fire and the rest are under tents.
"Some families have sent their members to neighbouring villages to live with their relatives. Houses apart, officials said the losses include 80 cow sheds, one middle school, two medical shops, two water mills, three provisional stores, two Anganwari center, one health sub center, beside a mosque and a shrine" said Balwan added that the fire was accidental in nature that started from the house of Mohammed Ashraf at around 6.30 PM on Saturday which engulfed the whole village.
"Most of the houses were brick-and- timber houses and lacked any fire gap. The winds added to the crisis" said DC Kishtwar. He said that in absence of any fire-tender - it cannot be taken there for lack of road, the fire extinguished, almost automatically, after it destroyed everything. "When the officials flew to the village it was still smoldering" he said.
The twin valley's of Marwah and Warwan located on the mountains separating Kashmir and Chinab Valley, lack access to proper roads. They are normally inaccessible for six months of winter. For many years, it has remained a crisis that some of the villages go up in flames in accidents, normally in autumn or winter.
NC leader SAjad Ahmad Kitchloo has announced paying Rs 75,000 each to every family from his constituency development fund and additional Rs 10,000 from his own pocket. Reports said Kitchloo who started his journey to this remote village and reach today along with over 600 blankets, 600 Kashmiri Farhan, Warm clothes and other relief material. Huge relief material arrived from different parts of Chenab valley has been dumped at Kishtwar helipad and the same will be lifted tomorrow morning. Several NGOs are also coming forward for the help and will meet the officials of administration to seek the list of required items. |
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