On day rain washes away Jammu Smart City!

On day rain washes away Jammu Smart City!
Administration claims exposed, Jammu turns into a big lake, triggers flash floods, landslides
*Where is Smart City concept? One day rain has exposed the government and it is told that government is only name sake and no one is serious on this issue.
*It is sufficient for Jammuites that government may arrest the encroachments of Khad and Jhaad but officers of Revenue department are responsible for the flood flash in Jammu.
*The Khads must be immediately vacated at any cost so that Jammu city can be saved otherwise it would be disastrous flood beside it pandemic can be erupted.
*It will be foolish step to allow the issuance of farad and sale purchase of any kind of Khad in Jammu province and the government must ban it forever.
*Those who have committed fraud and crime by selling and purchasing the Khads both should be booked under disastrous act and their houses must be demolished in one go.
*A case must be registered against the Chief Engineer of Flood Control department Jammu and also against Commissioner JMC as they failed in their jobs.
Jammu, Jul 12: The rain of one day has exposed the tall claims of Jammu & Kashmir government and derailed the life of common person, but the concept of Jammu Smart City has smashed with flash-flood and those who were parroting about Smart City are disappeared from the scene. The rains created havoc in the plains and triggered landslides, flash floods in hilly parts of the region early Monday morning.
This is crystal clear that Flood Control department is a totally dead department and the loss incurred by the flood should be claimed from the salaries of Chief Engineer and others staff to the bottom as they are the burden on the society. A case in this regard may be registered against the Chief Engineer of the Flood Control department and immediately may be sent behind the bars.
The officials of the Jammu Municipal Corporation including Commissioner and others must be booked under law and also the loss incurred by the flash flood may be taken from their salaries.
Rains lashed various parts of Jammu damaging roads and buildings in several areas. The Police Control Room, Jammu, said that water entered many houses and government buildings while walls of some complexes also collapsed due to rain.
Police Post Gadigarh, in the outskirts, was inundated, while the boundary wall of City Police Station collapsed towards roadside blocking the road causing inconvenience to the passersby.
The water level in the river Tawi has also swelled owing to continuous downpour in the upper reaches.
City roads were waterlogged and the rain water inundated houses in low laying areas like Bhagwati Nagar, Talab Tillo, Jewel Chowk, Rajinder Nagar, Qasim Nagar, Vinayak Bazar, Dogra Chowk, Gandhi Nagar, Sainik Colony, Green Belt and many others.
Police spokesman said that no reports of any injury or major damage has been reported so far.
Jammu City recorded the highest ever rainfall of 150.6 mm in the last 24 hours since 1989 for the month of July.
Heavy downpours were witnessed in other parts of Jammu region. Katra and Samba received a whopping 76.6 mm and 119.0 mm rainfall in the last 24 hours till 0830 hours.
Kathua, Batote, Bhaderwah and Banihal recorded 24.8 mm, 25.4 mm, 10.4 mm and 6.4 mm rainfall respectively.
The waterlogged Jammu-Pathankot national highway also remained shut at Samba.
Locals staged protest alleging that due to overflow of drains especially in monsoon season, the road gets blocked but the administration is not taking any notice to this grievance despite repeated reminders.
The weatherman has said that as expected, very heavy showers occurred at many places of Jammu plains whereas moderate shower reported at many places of Kashmir and Hilly areas of Jammu and continuously raining.
“Weather will remain overcast to Cloudy at most places of J&K,” he said.
He said that the shower may generate Flash Flood and Landslide in Hilly Area which may led to blockage of Road.