Though divisional administration in Kashmir had claimed of its preparedness to meet any eventuality many a times before the beginning of winter season in December last year and later as well but people taking patients on their shoulders and conventional Kashmiri charpoys speaks volumes about the administration’s failure in carrying out snow clearance operations in time. Governor busy in taking controversial decisions which he had to left for the next popular government to taje and transferring top bureaucrats to satisfy his own ego did not bother to even take a review meeting of the snow clearance operations with divisional commissioner Kashmir and district development commissioners (DDCs) of valley Thursday this week when heavy snowing shut all roads connecting Kashmir’s district headquarters with summer capital Srinagar. Even the reports about the public demand for transport facilities to carry the dead body of a woman from a South Kashmir town to her ancestral village did not wake up Governor’s administration in Jammu, divisional administration in Srinagar and concerned district administration in South Kashmir from deep slumber to help the deceased woman’s family to take her body to her ancestral village. Even in Srinagar the summer capital the city roads remained under six inch snow for the whole day Thursday this week and snow clearance operation could not get underway for the first twenty four hours after snow started accumulating on roads Thursday from wee hours.
Ironically the Governor’s administration in Jammu ordered the transfer of City Municipal Commissioner the day when his bosses in Jammu should have taken feed backs from him on the restoration of civic services in the aftermath of heavy snowing in the summer capital. The collapse of the Kashmir’s divisional administration on a snowing day both in urban and as well as rural areas of Kashmir shows that administration in both Srinagar the summer capital and district headquarters of Kashmir valley is in a state of inertia.
Even a day after the snowfall the men and machines of the drainage division of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) were not seen moving on the water lodged roads to ease the movement of the light vehicles in the city. Ironically the Governor’s administration in Jammu ordered the transfer of City Municipal Commissioner the day when his bosses in Jammu should have taken feed backs from him on the restoration of civic services in the aftermath of heavy snowing in the summer capital. The collapse of the Kashmir’s divisional administration on a snowing day both in urban and as well as rural areas of Kashmir shows that administration in both Srinagar the summer capital and district headquarters of Kashmir valley is in a state of inertia.
