Three houses demage, Three Injured due to falling rocks in Budhal Area of Rajouri : Compensation for affected families Demanded.

GNS ONLINE RAJOURI 

SAYED ZAHID 

RAJOURI/BUDHAL JUNE 04:- Three houses damage due to massive stoneslide in Pandit Mohalla of Budhal town after heavy rain and furious hailstorm on Friday afternoon. three Houses have been damaged three peoples have been injured. The family members said that a niece including sibling has been injured. The injured were shifted to Primary Health Center Budhal for initial treatment.The injured were discharge after initial treatment. The injured identified as Sudesh Kumari s/o Krishnan Lal Sonu Sharma D/o Krishnan Lal and Sakshi Sharma D/o Suram Chand.
According to details, the incident of heavy rocks falling took place on Friday evening between 8 and 9 pm, while the team of Budhal police station and local people’s also reached the spot as soon as the information was received.
Police and local peoples started rescue operations while the victims were taken to safe places.

Tehsildar Kotranka Budhal Sumit Kohli visited the site of Pandit Mohalla Ward No. 3. He assessed the damage and assured that relief will be provided to the victims soon.

Senior BJP leader Manzoor Naik visited the landslide-affected families in Pandit Mohalla today and demanded immediate compensation for the families whose houses were destroyed by heavy rocks. The houses of persons named Krishnan Lal s/o Anant Ram Pawan Kumar s/o Mahon Lal and Kapil Dev s/o Jagan Nath were destroyed and three persons were injured.
Addressing the media representatives  Naik said that the untimely rains which have continuously dashed the hopes of farmers in Rajouri district for several weeks and destroyed the properties of poor and destitute people at various places.
Manzoor added that bad weather has destroyed farmers’ wheat and maize and fruit growers have also been badly affected. Naik added that the unseasonal rain is also going to affect fruit production this season and many walnut and apricot trees have been uprooted due to strong winds along with the rain.

Manzoor claimed that farmers have suffered a lot as their crops like maize and wheat have suffered heavy damage. Naik urged the LG administration to pay timely compensation to the affected farmers.

Naik said concerned authorities should be directed to assess the crop of farmers affected by untimely rain or hailstorm and the administration should take steps to provide relief to farmers in such a situation.