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News Topical, Digital Desk : Himachal Disaster: Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Jairam Thakur has demanded from the state government that Mandi district has suffered a lot in this disaster. Relief work should be expedited in other disaster affected areas including Seraj and serious work should be done to search for more than two dozen missing people. After visiting the flood affected areas of Kuklah and Bagsyad in his home assembly constituency on Wednesday (July 2), he said that there is neither electricity nor communication services in Seraj area for the last three days.
He said that it has become difficult to reach Thunag and the main road to Janjehli has been completely broken. Many tourists are stranded and neither the administration has been able to reach Pakharair village where people were swept away due to cloudburst nor are we able to go. There is only a nominal road left in a radius of 20 km and there have been heavy landslides on the roads at many places. According to my information, so far 11 people are missing from Daisy of Pakharair Panchayat, five from Thunag and two from Pandavashila.
'About 200 houses have been damaged in the area'
Jairam Thakur said that wherever I have gone today, people's houses and shops have been washed away and in villages like Sharan, ten to twelve houses have been destroyed. About 200 houses have been damaged in this area. The same is the condition of Thunag area where more than 150 houses have collapsed and as many have partially collapsed.
'Till now the administration has not been able to distribute even the relief amount'
Jairam Thakur said that more than 25 small and big bridges have collapsed in the entire area. People have to walk several kilometers to come and go. Till now the administration has not been able to distribute even the relief amount and has not been able to reach the affected areas. He said that today itself I had talked to the central government and demanded to send NDRF and two helicopters of the Air Force for relief work and immediately the Home Minister also sent them.
Asked to work on war footing
The BJP leader said that today I have talked to NDRF Commandant Rajneesh on the spot and asked him to work on war footing to search for the missing people. I have also given instructions to the Chief Engineers of Jal Shakti, Public Works and Electricity Board after meeting them. At night, the Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police also gave information about the damage and discussed in detail how to run relief and rehabilitation programs in future. The Leader of Opposition
said that the ropeway facility should be restored round the clock and at concessional rates.
He said that I have also talked to the Chief Minister this morning and I have requested him to give strict instructions to the officials because the kind of tragedy that has happened, such a loss has never happened in Seraj before today. He talked about restoring the ropeway facility round the clock and at concessional rates for the people of nearby areas including Kuklah and Bakhli. He talked to the ropeway officials and asked the local people to take essential goods from here.
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