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Deluge hit Dal residents left high & dry 12/15/2015 10:33:35 PM Majid Nabi Early Times Report Srinagar, Dec 15: Accusing the district administration and Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) of misleading deluge hit residents of picturesque Dal Lake, the affected claimed that they have achieved nothing other than running from pillar to post since the devastating floods hit Kashmir valley last year. The flood affected residents claimed that the high level committee constituted by the government recommended plots and residential houses for the deluge hit house owners in Dal Lake, however the execution is yet to see the light of the day. "It is an irony that despite orders issued by the High Level Committee to rehabilitate the people whose houses were damaged in floods, however the administration seems in no mood to take any concrete steps in this direction," Farooq Ahmad Shalla a Dal dweller told 'Early Times' The residents claimed that seven months have already elapsed since High Level Committee no. 102 issued an order directing LAWDA to compensate and rehabilitate the 166 earmarked fully damaged house owners in Dal Lake and its peripherals although the administration and LAWDA authorities have done nothing other than misleading Deputy CM Dr Nirmal Singh. "HLC had identified 166 fully damaged houses and directed VC, LAWDA to rehabilitate and compensate these house owners, but till date nothing of the sort has happened," said Mohammad Sultan an affected from Rakh-e-Arth. The deluge hit residents said that they were promised of the plots and residential houses by government but it seems that the promises made by government cannot be adopted on ground for reasons best known to them. The aggrieved residents accused the district administration of misleading Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh on one pretext or another, "sometimes they inform Deputy CM that the government lacks funds and sometimes they claim that the order has been implemented in letter and spirit", they said. "The VC, LAWDA is misleading Dy. CM on implementation of order citing problems, despite the fact that funds were already earmarked to build residential houses for the deluged and 963 plots stand identified and government is yet to hand over the same to the affected house owners," claimed Rafiq Ahmad another resident of Rakh-e- Arth. Meanwhile the entire 600 flood deluged house owners have threatened to reconstruct houses at their native places saying, "despite more than a year has passed since floods occurred here but the government is yet to rehabilitate us, we are forced to reconstruct houses on our own" The affected said that they have been living in tents since floods occurred here and can no more bear to live in tents in this biting cold.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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