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Budgam residents allege unfair distribution of relief cheques for flood affected people 1/22/2015 11:05:33 PM Shakeel A Khan Early Times Report BUDGAM, Jan 22: Like the other flood affected areas of Kashmir the residents of this Central Kashmir are also up in arms against the state government with respect to the compensation paid to the affected people. The residents allege that the distribution of relief cheques meant for the flood victims has been unfair. Most of them complain that they haven't received any. The mishandling of the situation that arose in the aftermath of the flood has created confusion in the common masses. "One fails to understand why the revenue department has overlooked the ones whose houses were deluged. Many people were compensated merely for the reasons that their houses were surrounded by the water. My house too was surrounded by the flood water but I didn't get any compensation," said Abdul Rashid from Daharmunah. Rashid went on saying there are many people who have received the compensation cheques of Rs. 3800 and he fails to understand why he was not included in the list of affected people. He said that he can prove that many people of his village got the relief cheques then why not he. There is a general perception among the residents of flood affected areas that revenue department has miserably failed to identify the real sufferers as the influential remained in the forefront to grab the relief cheques. Many people, whose houses were hit by the flood, complain that they got nothing from the revenue department. Such reports have poured in from many villages in the vicinity of Soibugh area of Budgam district where the authorities seem to have been misguided by the village headmen. The people of these villages accuse the authorities that they assigned the job of making the list of the flood affected people to the heads of the villages and as according them lists prepared by them aren't fair. "Chak mohalla in Soibugh was safe during the floods and the irony is that still then many people of the mohalla were given the relief cheques. It is nothing but loot in the name of providing relief to the flood affected people," said Ghulam Nabi from Soibugh.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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