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| Omar Govt mulls special package for fire sufferers | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 8: After two back-to-back fire incidents at Shiv Market and Warehouse, the government is seriously considering rehabilitating the affected shopkeepers and traders through special funds to adequately compensate their losses.
Over 35 shops were gutted to ashes in Shiv Market near Railway Station Jammu in the intervening night of October 25 and 26. While the authorities were preparing a report to assess the total loss, a massive fire engulfed Warehouse, Jammu on November 8, resulting in losses worth crores.
Sources said that during his visit to the Shiv Market along with senior officers, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah directed the officers to prepare detailed reports about individual losses of the shopkeepers so that they could be compensated adequately.
Instead of compensating the affected shopkeepers as per disaster management relief fund rules, the affected traders are likely to be rehabilitated and compensated with special interim financial assistance packages.
If fire-affected shopkeepers were compensated as per disaster management relief funds, they would not get adequate compensation because, as per these rules, the affected families would get only compensation of a few lakhs.
Sources said that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, after his visit to Shiv Market, has already directed the officers to prepare a detailed report of the losses so that the affected shopkeepers can be rehabilitated under a special financial package.
Sources said that besides shopkeepers of Shiv Market, traders of Warehouse would also be compensated under a special economic package.
Sources said that the Jammu and Kashmir government would likely approach the Union Government for getting a comprehensive package for the relief and rehabilitation of the affected shopkeepers of Shiv Market and traders of Warehouse.
Meanwhile, leader of the opposition and BJP MLA Sunil Sharma, today said that said that all 29 BJP MLAs will support the shopkeepers affected by the devastating fire at Warehouse, Jammu, through their Constituency Development Fund (CDF).
Sharma said a team of BJP MLAs will work so that the affected traders do not have to wander from place to place for help.
He said the MLAs will demand from the Government and the administration to relax the development fund and provide provision so that traders can be helped to stand on their feet again.
"We 29 MLAs consider ourselves a part of this family, and all 29 MLAs want to contribute from their development fund here. For that, we will have to demand from the Government; we will have to talk to the Government," Sharma said.
He said apart from this, all the MLAs will also involve society so that the traders can once again stand on their own feet. |
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