Administration caught napping as problems glore in snow fall: Vakil

Senior peoples conference leader and Former Minister Abdul Gani Vakil today said that the administration is invisible at this time of distress. In a statement,Vakil lashed out at authorities for allegedly failing to make proper arrangements in view of the recent snowfall.

Abdul Gani Vakil said that all claims made by the government about their preparedness have been exposed with a few inches of snow causing immense hardships to the people of Valley especially people of Rafiabad and its Kandi area which is still under snow and nobody from the Govt side coming to the rescue of poor people, sick and old.

“just a few inches of snow have caused massive power breakdown, road blockades and water scarcity in Rafiabad .All the major roads leading to Rafiabad and connecting villages are completely inundated, with snow yet to be cleared from the roads.”Vakil said that despite regional met department weather prediction for another spell of snowfall, State administration was ill-prepared for the snowfall.

“To mitigate the hardship of people ,the higher-ups in administration need to ensure greater synergy and coordination between various departments especially those providing essential services.T he government must ensure that people are provided all basic, particularly power,water, essential necessities, and emergency services should be monitored and damaged power distribution lines should be immediately repaired ,” Vakil said.

Mr.Vakil further Stressed upon the Governor to keep his promise for arranging special flights on concessional fare for the passengers stranded at Jammu facing hardships, crying on streets and nobody is coming forward to listen and address their problems and Governor’s assurance looks tall claims only and nothing is done in practice.

Vakil urged the administration to fully activate a response mechanism to deal with the situation arisen after heavy snowfall.