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| EARTH SHAKING...!! Fear psychosis descends on Bhamag, village sliding 1 cm/day! | | |  Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Sept 29: "Age Garmi Poundi Hi Taan As Galande Hai Ae Parmatma Barkha De Par Un Agar Battar Bi Dena Oye Taan Bi As Nai Mangde (When temperature starts soaring we would pray to God for rainfall but now even if we need rain waters to irrigate our fields, we wouldn't ask for it)," said a distressed Krishan Singh of Basnote Panchayat of newly established Tehsil Mongri in Udhampur district.
This impromptu reaction of the septuagenarian Krishan Singh was enough to convey the panic of the distraught people of Mongri and adjoining panchayats of the vast and mountainous Bhamag area, part of which lies in Udhampur district while its another portion falls in Reasi district.
The people of this rocky terrain are living under a fear psychosis because everyone who came across this scribe has only one concern to express and that is their safety as they feel that the hill slopes in Bhamag area are slowly but steadily getting weaker and of late the landslides have become a routine phenomenon.
The recent incessant rains which brought mudslides along with it have shaken their confidence to stay put in the place where their ancestors lived and died since ages.
And, the resultant effect is that they are even thinking of permanently moving to safer places if such trend of mudslides alongwith huge boulders rolling on to inhabited areas doesn't stop in near future.
"We are in constant danger…. Saddal like mishap is certainly in waiting… Every hamlet in Bhamag has become a land slide prone area… Each Panchayat in the region is under threat of perishing under mud…. Land is sliding by at least one centimeter per day in Village Cherag where at least 25 houses are in danger of collapsing while the situation is also grave in Village Santhar where as many as 5 houses are on the verge of falling," said SarpanchYashpal of DubbigaliPanchayat of Tehsil Mongri.
"We urge the government to conduct a comprehensive geological survey of the entire area to find out that whether the hills of Bhamag could further withstand such natural disaster or not…If study of the mountains in Bhamag reveals that it is not safe to live here then we have to search for other options," he added. |
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