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Rudra Roop of Rain God
Omkar Dattatray8/29/2025 10:56:18 PM
Inder Davta- the rain god according to Hinduism seems not comfortable rather is angry with Jammutie. It has been raining heavily and the incessant rain and it is raining cats and dogs and putting live in Jammu in particular and Jammu region in general out of gear. The continuous rains from Monday night put people of Jammu region to inconvenience and trouble. The incessant rains caused mayhem and havoc in whole Jammu region. Continuous and torrential rains have caused floods in all most all regions of Jammu putting life of the people to trouble. Major roads in Jammu region are closed as there are flood like situations in whole Jammu region. Jammu and Kashmir national highway stands closed because of heavy rains that lead to landslide in Ramban /Ramsoo stretch of the national highway. The Jammu-Pathankot Road is closed as the main bridge at Kathua has been damaged. Besides the Tawi bridge near Bhagwati Nagar has collapsed resulting into inconvenience to the vehicle operators as well as to commuters. All most all low- lying areas as well as plain areas of Jammu municipal corporation are witnessing water logging and in many such areas rain water has entered the houses of the people leading to trouble and inconvenience to the residents of these areas. All most all roads of Jammu are water logged and the already poor road infrastructure of Jammu is witnessing water logging causing disruption in the public, private transport and thus the vehicular traffic has been disturbed causing trouble and inconvenience to the commuters. The pot holes in the roads of Jammu are full of rain water and the roads are also flooded with rain water and so it is difficult for the transport operators as well as private vehicles to ply on the Jammu roads which are already poor and shabby. The rain water has entered into the houses of people in Udhywala, Anand Nagar ,Tomal ,lower Muthi, Akalpora, Ajit colony, Trilokpura of Gole Gujral, Lower Roop Nagar,Sarwal, Janipur, New Plots, Krishna Nagar ,GMC near Jewal some areas of Talab Tillo ,Bhori , Jammu university compound etc, putting the inmates of these areas and other areas to trouble. The water level of nullas, rivers and rivulets are rising. The main river of Jammu the Tawi River is flowing near danger mark and if the rain will not stop there will be major flood in Jammu and it may result in destruction and even loss to the lives of the people. Incessant and torrential rains have wrought havoc in Jammu and unfortunately 13 people have died due to rains and landslides. It is very unfortunate and disturbing that more than 33 ,yatries of Mata Vaishno Davi haven been killed near Adi Kumari and 14 people have got injured due to landslide by heavy rains. In total 40 people were killed in the Jammu region due to incessant rains, flash floods and landslides. Their killing is a question mark on the slackness of the local administration? One wonders why have the authorities allowed the yatries to undertake arduous pilgrimage to Trukuta hills in which stands Vaishnav Davi shrine. The torrential rains have caused flood like situation in Jammu. Due to continuous rains, it is becoming difficult for the people to venture out. Government has issued advisory for the people and cautioned then not to go near the rivers and not to venture out after 8 pm. The Jammu has plunged into complete darkness as electricity has got disrupted and without electricity people are facing untold sufferings. The water supply has mostly been affected and people are suffering for the want of drinking water. All schools, government and private offices have been closed as a precautionary measure to avoid any untoward incident.
The rains have impacted and affected the education of the children as the schools are off and on being closed by the government. The roofs of some school building collapsed and thank God no casualties were reported. Traffic on Jammu-Srinagar Highway and other major roads remain suspended. The call, mobile internet outage across all service providers in Jammu and Kashmir has been badly affected. Internet services have been closed from Wednesday morning thus obstructing phone communication. Restrictions, have been imposed on the movement of people during night hours. Relentless heavy rain has not only caused havoc and mayhem in Jammu region only but in Kashmir valley heavy downpour has been reported and in Srinagar also there is fear and threat of floods due to over flowing of the Jhelum- river. Bridges, electricity poles and culverts have collapsed putting traffic out of gear. In fact, the routine life of the people in Jammu as well as Kashmir has been badly affected.
The recruitment campaign for constables in different security organisations including BSF has been halted for a day because of flood like situation. In Doda, Kishtwar, Bhaderwah, there are floods as the rivers are flowing above danger mark. The telecom services in the UT have been affected causing inconvenience to the people. On a cursory look it seems that the Weather god is angry with the people of Jammu region, but a deep look and thinking forces us to admit that all climatic changes are due to the greed of the human mortals. People have cut trees, shrunk the rivers, encroached the banks of water bodies. We have disturbed the ecological and environmental balance and have done harm to the wild animals. People have without any remorse fell tree. In fact, people have disturbed the natural environment and the nature has started to punish us and that is the real thing., We should not play with the nature and overuse the natural resources as it is bound to recoil on us thus causing incessant rains, floods and landslides .In the name of development the government had blasted mountains and rocks to make roads and this has resulted into landslides at times causing the loss of innocent lives. People should not play with the natural environs and should not exploit it for selfish ends rather we should try to safeguard natural environment if we really want to save people from climatic changes. We have disturbed the natural environment and we are playing with the nature and misusing natural resources and the God in its turn is punishing us by resorting to floods, landslides and sometimes draughts. Humans should not exploit nature rather try to safeguard the natural environment and habitat so that nature on its part will not punish us. Let us pray to rain god Indra to be benevolent and stop the torrential rain so that Jammuites will heave a sigh of relief. Enough is enough, the incessant rain should now stop it is our prayer to Inder Davta. Hoping that God who is most merciful and benevolent will protect us from natural furies. Tatha Astu !
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