Central team visits South Kashmir Anantnag, Oct 17: Central team headed by Joint Secretary Home affairs Gopal Anand along with Revenue Secretary Vinod Koul Friday visited Anantnag and Pulwama districts of south Kashmir to take stock of damages to infrastructure due to the recent floods. At Pulwama, District Development Commissioner Sajad Ahmad Khan gave detailed presentation about the damages and relief and rehabilitation process in the district. The district officers also provided details of damage that their concerned departments have incurred during the floods. The DDC informed Joint secretary that R&B department has made 41 bridges functional that were severely damaged in the floods. He also informed him that 161 PHE schemes were damaged in the floods out of which 159 were restored. In education sector, 157 school buildings have got damaged, including 12 fully damaged buildings. In agriculture sector, crops on 321000 hectares have been damaged while 81 hectares were washed away by the floods. 84 schemes of irrigation department were damaged of which 22 have been restored. At Anantnag, the District administration led by ADDC, Hashmatullah informed the visiting team that 174 villages out of the 394 villages in the district were inundated, while as 220 were partially affected. The ADDC said 40,000 families were affected in the floods, 1902 Pucca houses damaged fully while as 18614 Pucca houses suffered partial damages.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:39:07 +0000
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