Div Com reviews post-snowfall situation in Kashmir

Takes strong note of Boniyar accident

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SRINAGAR: The Divisional Commissioner (Div Com) Kashmir, Vijay Kumar Bidhuri Thursday reviewed the post-snowfall situation in all the districts of Kashmir by taking stock of snow clearance on main roads and inner links besides those leading to major installations and tourism places.

At the outset, the Div Com took strong note of the Boniyar accident that resulted in loss of precious lives and injuries to others. He directed DCs to take stringent action against overloading and get potholes filled to prevent accidents.

He also made it clear that no such accident should happen in future.

The Div Com also took stock of essential supplies, services, power and water supply scenarios, especially in far-off places including

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Labour Commissioner, J&K Charandeep Singh Thursday interacted with a large gathering of workers who joined through video conferencing from all twenty districts of J&K. The interaction provided a platform to the workers for directly engaging and raising issues concerning them with the Labour Commissioner.

Acknowledging their crucial role as nation builders, the Labour Commissioner reiterated the commitment of the Government in protecting and safeguarding their interests and ensuring that the benefits of welfare schemes reaches each and every worker including their family members. “The Labour Department is meant to serve and empower you” he said.

During the interaction, Labour Commissioner enquired about problems, if any, being faced by them including in availing benefits of welfare schemes like educational assistance for their children, healthcare etc. “Not just the schemes of the Labour Department, if you face any issues in availing benefits of schemes in other departments of the Government, our offices in the districts will help you in getting them”, he told workers.

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To take first hand appraisal of the situation arising due to snowfall and restoration of essential services, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kulgam, Athar Aamir Khan on Thursday conducted extensive tour of Nihama, Bathipora and other areas in the district and took stock of snow clearance operations and restoration of services.

During the tour, DC visited the sub-divisional control room of MED at Bathipora where the officers from MED and R&B briefed him about snow clearance in all Priority 01 roads and also informed that 95 percent of roads under priority 02 were also cleared.

Later, he also visited Farooq Ahmad Bhat Memorial (PHC Nihama) and took stock of patient care services at the hospital.

Deputy Commissioner (DC) Baramulla, Minga Sherpa, today chairs District Road Safety Committee meeting in his office chamber to strategize and implement effective measures aimed at inculcating responsible road behavior and averting road mishaps.

Additional District Development Commissioner Aijaz Abdullah saraf,Senior Superintendent of Police Baramulla,Amod Ashok Nagarpure, Additional Deputy Commissioner Baramulla, Dr Zahoor Ahmad Raina, Additional Deputy Commissioner Sopore, Shabir Ahmad Raina, Superintendent of Police Sopore, Divya Dev,Assistant Regional Transport officer Muazzam Ali,Chief Education officer Baramulla Balbir Singh Raina,Dy SP Traffic Rural, Mujahid Nazir Dar and other concerned were present during the meeting.

During the meeting, thorough discussions were held among the officers to identify and incorporate measures necessary to prevent accidents and stern directions were passed by the DC to inculcate these preventive measures.

Sonmarg, Gurez, Tangdhar and Karnah and Passes besides medicare facilities in hospitals.

All the District heads informed the chair that all the major roads have been cleared of snow while inner links shall be cleared by Thursday evening.

It was informed that except for a few issues, power supply is smooth and in case of outages the same shall be restored by Thursday evening.

The District heads also assured that all the services, water supply are smooth besides there is no dearth of essential supplies.

Meanwhile, the Div Com also convened a meeting, to review progress on Transit Accommodation for PM Package Employees.

The meeting was attended by Sajad Naqeeb, C.E PWD(R&B) central Kashmir; Narindra Kumar, S.E PWD(R&B); besides Ex. Engineers and AEEs of PWD (R&B) in person, while all Deputy Commissioners of all districts and Commissioner (M) Relief and Rehabilitation J&K, Chief Engineers of PWD (R&B) North and South Kashmir joined the meeting through V.C.

At the outset, C. E PWD(R&B) central Kashmir briefed the chair about the status of transit accommodations for PM package employees at Zewan, Srinagar; Baba Daryadeen, Ganderbal; Wandehama, Ganderbal; Kakan Marg, Budgam and Sheikhpora, Budgam.

Similarly, the C.E PWD(R&B) North briefed the meeting regarding the status of transit accommodation for PM package employees at Kulangam, Handwara; Natnoosa, Handwara; Odina, Sumbal and FatehPora, Baramulla.

Also, the C.E PWD(R&B) South briefed the meeting regarding the status of transit accommodation for PM package employees at Allowpora, Shopian; Lethpora, Pulwama; Machbhawan, Anantnag; Shangus, Anantnag; Ranbirpora, Anantnag; Mirhama, Kulgam; Chowgam, Kulgam and Vessu, Kulgam.

The Div Com took accommodation wise details of blocks which included number of blocks completed and handed-over, number of blocks to be handed over by March, June and September respectively. He directed the C.Es to ensure timely completion of all the blocks as per schedule.

He also took stock of electricity and water supply of the flats/ blocks to be handed-over by March, 2024 and directed concerned to make them fully functional in time so that allottees do not have to face any difficulty.

Bidhuri also directed the Department of Disaster Management, Relief and Rehabilitation (DMRR) to go for parallel allotment of the completed blocks/ flats to be handed over by March, 2024.

The meeting also discussed the construction of boundary walls of these accommodations; it was informed that some of the accommodations are without boundary walling raising security concerns.

The Div Com directed the concerned to erect temporary walling of accommodations wherever funds are not available yet, and construct boundary walls where funds have been allocated.

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