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| Chenab Valley legislators meet PM on drought relief | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 12: Six Legislators of the Chenab Valley region –comprising districts of Kishtwar, Doda and Ramban –today called on the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi to take up the case of crop loss in the region due to poor rains.
Barring one National Conference legislator –Sajjad Kichloo of Kishtwar –all other legislators, including a Minister, are from the Congress and incidentally owe their loyalties to the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad
The Minister for Roads and Buildings, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori and the Legislators Abdul Majeed Wani, Sajad Ahmad Kichloo, Ashok Kumar, Wikar Rasool, Neresh Kumar Gupta submitted a joint memorandum to the Prime Minister Dr .Manmohan Singh seeking relief package for the drought-hit farmers of erstwhile district Doda.
Earlier, Saroori had taken up this issue with Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, during his sojourn in New Delhi, and here at Srinagar with the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and sought relief for the affected farmers on the pattern adopted by the Centre for other drought hit states of the country.
It was pleaded in the memorandum that a big chunk of population in the district is facing starvation like situation as the livelihood of the most of them dependents on agriculture, which has suffered heavy damages due to drought.
On the instructions of the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, a survey has been conducted revealing 80% damage to the crops in Ramban, Doda, Banihal and Mohar areas, the memorandum mentions.
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