POONCH: To take stock of the damages caused by incessant rains and landslides, Member Legislative Assembly, Haveli, Shah Mohammad Tantray alongwith Deputy Commissioner, Poonch, M H Malik visited flood and landslide hit areas of the district along with a team of officers. The areas which were visited include Chhamber Knari, Arai and Tangdar. The affected families have been shifted to the safer places.
Due to landslides in village Tangdar 15 families have been affected who have been shifted to Panchayat Ghar and High School Batalkote. In village Arai some houses have developed cracks and the affected families have been accommodated by relatives in the village. They also visited the slide prone Chhamber Knari where PWD authorities were directed to dismantle a sliding rock immediately to avoid any mishappening. Blankets and Mattresses besides free ration have been provided to the rehabilitated families by the district administration.
MLA assured the people that government will make every effort to ease the sufferings of the affected people and appreciated district administration’s proactive and efficient handling of the situation. Meanwhile Deputy Commissioner, Poonch, M H Malik also visited the flood prone areas like Dhundak, Potha Beila and Sanai of tehsil Surankote to get first hand information about the damages caused by incessant rains and resultant flash floods.
About 32 houses have been damaged in the district in the last twenty four hours out of which one pakka house is fully damaged and three kacha houses are partially damaged besides three kacha houses are severely and twenty five kachha houses have been partially affected. 11 PHE schemes and 4 buildings of Animal Husbandry Department have suffered damages.