Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) volunteers yesterday visited Frestwar , Hangoo , Negoo and other areas of Budgam district where landslides has completely damaged scores of houses. AAP has appealed pisional Commissioner Kashmir to immediately visit these villages in upper reaches of Budgam where more than three dozen houses have been damaged due to continuous erosion of land aftermath of the recent snowfall. AAP leader and candidate for Srinagar Parliamentary seat Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat in a statement issued said that dozens of families in Frestwar , Hangoo , Neego , Loolipora , Watkaloo and other areas have suffered tremendous loss due to soil erosion and landslides but the Government has failed to even to reach out them for weeks together . It was only after AAP brought the matter into the notice of pisional Commissioner Kashmir and DC Budgam few days back that Tehsildar Khansahib visited one such village in Frestwar .
” Mere visiting the village by a tehsildar cannot address the issues , the Government must declare the recent snowfall as a natural calamity and the victims whose houses have been destroyed must be provided compensation and enlisted in the beneficiary list of Indira Awaas Yojna (IAY) . It is a metter of great concern that the authorities have failed to even pitch tents in Frestwar and other areas so that people who have turned homeless could at least get a sigh of relief . We have ourselves seen many families in Hangoo area of Chadoora have been living in tin sheds from months together as their houses were demolished during PMGSY road construction and from the last one year they are waiting for compensation , but haven’t been paid the same by authorities , the tin sheds where many such families have been residing too have been damaged due to recent snowfall and Government is least bothered about the same and indicates that Government treats such people like cattle and animals” Dr Muzaffar said and appealed to pisional Commissioner Kashmir to immediately visit all these areas so that effected families are taken care of.