SRINAGAR: The Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) expressed serious concern over “injustice” meted out to flood-victims of Srinagar in damage assessment by the government, and pledged to fight for the cause of Srinagarites.
He said, “Official figures on devastation and media reports vindicate the fact that devastation in Srinagar remained even more than the aggregate of other districts. Here areas like Raj Bagh, Shiv Pora and Karan Nagar remained in 20 feet of flood waters for around a month. How can the administration declare these unsafe houses as merely Partially Damaged. Or is to leave this summer capital struggle for survival under a deep rooted conspiracy?”
During the strike call given by KTMF against government failure to rehabilitate the traders post floods, KTMF President Muhammad Yasin Khan said, “Though rehabilitation of flood hit traders is our basic aim and objective, given the plight of flood hit people of Srinagar whose cries on injustice in damage assessment go unheard, it’s our moral duty to be by them and fight for their cause.”
