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| ‘Above law' officials play 'truant' with thousands of flood hit families | | Deny compensation amount despite stern instructions from Guv | | Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 1: Thousands of flood hit families of Kashmir valley are at loss these days since they have been denied the compensation amount due to them for the reasons better known to the people at helm.
A group of affected people told Early Times that despite being clubbed under the severely damaged category they are not being paid the relief amount due to them. They said the officials monitoring the whole process have ditched them and left them to bite the dust.
"Despite suffering huge losses in the flood we were put under the partially damaged category and as such we received Rs. 3,800 as the first installment of our relief amount. We protested against the same and made representations with the concerned officials in the respective districts while demanding justice," said the aggrieved people.
The aggrieved people said that following this re-verification committees were set up in different districts and it was found that justice has not been done. They said that the re-verification committee consisted of engineers of R&B department, tehsildar, naib tehsildar and patwari and after analyzing all the facts they found in thousands of cases justice has not been done.
Following the report of the verification committees more than 3,000 families who were put under the partially damaged category were later on clubbed under the severely damaged category.
However, the status of the families was not changed with the officials saying that this would be done in due course of time.
"Once this got proven that discrepancies have occurred we were paid Rs. 8,800 relief cheques in order to bring us at par with already classified severely damaged families who received Rs. 12,600 as their first installment of the relief amount. We thought that our worries are over and we would be able to restore our properties with the active support of the government," said the aggrieved families.
The aggrieved people said that the officials told them to receive the second installment of Rs. 20,000 due to the partially damaged category.
They said that they were promised that they would be paid remaining amount once their status gets changed from partially damaged to severely damaged category.
"We thought it better to receive the amount and did so with the hope that the necessary corrections would be made soon.
We made several representations in this regard at the concerned deputy commissioner's office hoping that the matter would be sorted out soon but that was not to be.
Of late the concerned officials told us that there can be no change in the status and we come under partially damaged category," said the aggrieved families.
The aggrieved people said that if they don't fall under the severely damaged category then how they were given Rs. 12,600 as the first installment of the relief amount.
They alleged that the concerned officials are playing 'fraud' with them despite strict instructions from Governor Narendra Nath Vohra.
"Once clubbed under severely damaged category we had to receive Rs. 1, 87,500 but as of now we are being asked to receive Rs. 48,500 that is due to people who come under the partially damaged category. Our hopes are pinned with the Governor. Hopefully he would come to our rescue and ensure that justice is done," said the aggrieved families. |
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