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| As people brace up to celebrate Eid, 'unfortunate' rue their luck | | Flood affected people left in lurch by government | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Oct 5: As the people across the Indian sub-continent are bracing up to celebrate the festival of Eid-ul-Azha lakhs of flood affected people living across the length and breadth of Kashmir valley are up in arms against the state government.
As the state government has failed to provide relief to the people who have been badly hit by the devastating flood there is no joy on the face of these people. There are no celebrations for the flood affected people as they have lost everything to the ravaging flood. They are aghast over the maltreatment meted out to them by the people at helm. The flood affected people are living like refugees in their own land and there is nobody from the government who has come to their rescue. Thousands of them are living in relief camps located across the valley and it goes to the credit of locals who have provided all the basic things of life. On the other hand the government is just making claims and it has failed to provide even the essentials of life to flood affected people."There is no joy for us on this day of Eid as we have been rendered homeless following the recent destructive flood. We are putting up at the house of one of the relatives. Our privacy has gone and there is no celebration for us on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Things would have been different had we stayed together as a family," said Feroz Ahmad, a resident of Qamarwari.Anger is brewing among the flood affected people as the state government has failed to provide them the tents in requisite number. Most of the tents have been provided by the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) while as the government has provided tents to the people who are blue eyed."It was written in our fate that our house would be destroyed in flood but what followed was pathetic.
The tardy response from the state government both in rescue and rehabilitation are highly condemnable. There is no rehabilitation programme in pipeline and mere lip service is being pursued by the state government," said Aijaz Ahmad, a resident of Rajbagh.Srinagar, the summer capital of the state bore the brunt of the flood as around one lakh houses or structures were either collapsed or damaged. People living in dozens of areas became homeless after their houses got submerged in the flood water.
As the houses remained in water for weeks together majority of them developed cracks and have since become unsafe for living. Same happened to the stock lying in the shops located in the different areas of the city. "My shop along with the merchandise of shawls remained in flood water for more than two weeks. Once the flood water receded then only we could assess the damage done to the shop. We have suffered tremendous losses and in such a situation how can we celebrate Eid. There is no joy whatsoever and we feel pained over the sequence of events in the recent past," said Mohammad Ayub, a resident of Sanat Nagar. |
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