Jitendra hits out at Omar govt for ignoring flood warnings
15 Nov 2014 6:25 AM IST
Union minister Jitendra Singh on Friday alleged that Jammu and Kashmir authorities had ignored the warnings by the Metereological department about floods, which ravaged the Kashmir Valley, particularly the Srinagar City.
‘We had issued similar flood warnings to the governments of Uttrakhand and Jammu and Kashmir to undertake measures in this regard. While Uttrakhand government responded to flood warnings, J&K government ignored it,’ Singh told reporters here on Friday.
He was replying to volley of questions on the blame game over floods that battered Kashmir valley, particularly Srinagar city, in September resulting in huge loss of lives and damage to the property.
‘Nobody (in J&K) bothered when water level crossed the danger mark (despite issuance of several Met department warnings) and Srinagar sunk,’ he said. I personally monitored the situation at the Met office and was instrumental in sending alerts to J&K government under my own supervision about abnormally high rainfall hitting Pirpanchal in south and central Kashmir, he said.
‘We had issued similar flood warnings to the governments of Uttrakhand and Jammu and Kashmir to undertake measures in this regard. While Uttrakhand government responded to flood warnings, J&K government ignored it,’ Singh told reporters here on Friday.
He was replying to volley of questions on the blame game over floods that battered Kashmir valley, particularly Srinagar city, in September resulting in huge loss of lives and damage to the property.
‘Nobody (in J&K) bothered when water level crossed the danger mark (despite issuance of several Met department warnings) and Srinagar sunk,’ he said. I personally monitored the situation at the Met office and was instrumental in sending alerts to J&K government under my own supervision about abnormally high rainfall hitting Pirpanchal in south and central Kashmir, he said.
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