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MUNISH Gupta
Jammu, March 4: Independent MLA from Bishnah Ashwani Sharma and Darhal legislator Choudhary Zulfikar Ali today walked out from legislative assembly after creating a commotion when the government could not satisfy them on their constituency specific concerns.
Pressing the government to open fire stations in his constituency, MLA Bishanh, Ashwani Sharma staged a walkout in the legislative assembly accusing the government of neglecting his area by not opening the fire station there.
Ashwani Kumar said “four year back then chief minister had sanctioned a fire station at Bishnah constituency but nothing could done by the government to establish a fire station”.
He said that even though the government had approved the opening of the fire station at Bishnah in 2005 no work was started over it and the project has been only been swept under the carpet. The Bishnah MLA drew the attention of the government towards the increased fire incidents in his area. “The frequency of fire incidents has increased considerably and there have been heavy damages to shops and other businesses in view of the fire incidents. Government was showing the lack of seriousness to devise a policy for tackling the fire incidents,” he said.
However, the question regarding fire stations was raised by Ashwani Kumar, Shafi Ahmed Wani and Mohd Irfan Shah.
While Jugal Kishore, G M Saroori, Ch Mohammad Ramzan, Sartaj Madni, Nazir Ahmad Gurezi, Shabir Ahmad Khan, Nasir Aslam Wani, Sakina Ittoo, Master Lal Chand, Jagdsih Raj Sapolia, Yash Paul Kundal, Abdul Haq Khan, Syed Bashir Ahmad, Nizam-ud-Din Bhat, Waqar Rasool and Mubarak Gul raised supplementary questions regarding setting up of full-fledged Fire and Emergency Stations in their constituencies.
In reply, Minister Incharge Home Ali Mohd Sagar said that during the regime of previous government, 32 new Fire and Emergency Stations were announced, but none made functional, adding that these would be re-examined by the Government.
Sagar while agreeing with the members who raised the supplementary, said that for setting up any new Fire and Emergency Station, parameters like distance, population and topography are kept in view and the areas are categorized as A, B, C and D zones depending on the risk of fire incidence. He assured the members that a comprehensive survey would be conducted a fresh in the entire State for setting up of new Fire and Emergency Stations keeping in view the requirements of the areas and other criteria.
He said that during the last one year, 49 fire calls were attended by the Fire and Emergency Services in the above areas and the total losses due to fire incidents were estimated at Rs 73 lakh.
He said that after proper survey, the areas would be considered for setting up of Fire and Emergency Stations there.
PDP MLA Ch Zulfikar Ali also staged walkout from Legislative assembly in protest against not getting time for his question during question hours. He said in question hour only two or three questions have only took up in the house while rest of ignored. ‘This is injustice’, he said.
Sagar said that besides the distance from a particular fire station, population of the particular area and its topography will be the other factors that will be taken into consideration to open new fire stations.
He said on the basis of frequency of fire incidents the areas are being identified into the different categories and those areas where the fire incidents have been more will be given priority in the setting up of fire stations.
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