Srinagar: National Conference General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar Friday slammed the administration for its failure to handle the situation following rains that lashed Kashmir.
Sagar said the failure of the government to carry out routine desiltation of drains was one of the reasons why the low lying areas took no time to get inundated.
“As part of new normal which is in vogue at present the government has not taken a comprehensive review on civic conditions across Kashmir including that Srinagar itself, the present situation is an outcome of the continued negligence of administration. Previously also the administration had miserably failed to live up to the expectations of the people during the preceding winter months,” he said.
Sagar said it has become a routine of the bureaucracy which has its hands on the helms of power in Jammu and Kashmir, to respond in a reactionary manner rather than having emergency plans in place to deal with such weather vagaries.
He said the Phased flood management plan on river Jhelum despite huge budgetary allocations and approvals was yet to pick up on ground. “The work was supposed to be done on war-footing seeing the devastation the 2014 deluge wrecked on the entire populace. But the government seems to have dumped the mega project,” he said.
