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| As officers chant 'all is well' mantra, Omar Abdullah's credibility gets a serious beating | | Complete connectivity, a distant dream; power connectivity, a dream | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Jan 24: It seems that Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah has lost his credibility and no one among the administration takes him seriously. Bureaucrats as well as senior officers in the administration mislead Omar as and when some meeting takes place.
Same happened with the review meeting convened by Omar on January 23 (Thursday) a day after most areas of Kashmir valley received heavy snowfall. The officers present in the meeting presented a rosy picture to the Chief Minister saying that 'all is well' and people have been provided relief in the aftermath of snowfall.
Today on the second day after the snowfall people living in majority of villages of South Kashmir are yet to be connected with different district headquarters. Same is the case with the villages falling in the higher belt of Central Kashmir's Budgam district where people have been cut off due to accumulation of three feet of snow.
Not to talk of the far-off areas people living in summer capital of the state too faced problems in moving around after the snowfall. A portion of the Polo View area located few hundred yards away from the venue of Thursday's review meeting chaired by Omar was yet to be cleared from snow at the time the meeting was in progress and even after that.
The pavement leading towards the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) office from Polo View was not cleared of snow. But still then there was nobody asking the officers who claimed that snow has been cleared from the roads and by-lanes of Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir valley.
Dozens of villages in the South Kashmir districts like Anantnag, Kulgam and Shopian continue, to remain under snow. Minimal efforts have been taken so far to clear snow with people continuing to suffer on account of connectivity. Official machinery is yet to reach these areas and going by the snail pace of work undertaken it may take few more days for people of these villages to attain connectivity once again.
People across the length and breadth of Valley raised their concern over the functioning of Mechanical Engineering Department in the clearance of snow. Common masses said the department has failed in discharging the primary component of its working that is the clearance of snow from the main roads. Some of the areas of the uptown Srinagar had to wait for a day and half for snow being cleared from roads that lie quite close to Parimpora-Pantha Chowk sector of Baramulla-Srinagar-Jammu national highway.
Along with the non-clearance of snow people also faced tremendous difficulties as far as power supply is concerned. Power supply got snapped to Kashmir valley on Tuesday and same was restored to half of the population by Wednesday night. However, as on date there are scores of villages in South and Central Kashmir that are without power supply. One cannot set any date for the complete restoration of power to these villages going by lackadaisical attitude of the people on ground.
One is forced to laugh at the claim made by State government that January 21-22 snowfall was the heaviest in Kashmir valley over the past one decade. These people seem to have forgotten the harsh vagaries of weather in January 2012. These people are also reminded of the Snow Tsunami that hit the Kashmir valley in February 2005. |
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