Jammu, April 12 (Scoop News) – JK Governor N. N. Vohra , Chief Minister,Omar Abdullah, Minister of State for Home, Industries & commerce and Tourism, Sajad Ahmad Kichloo, , Former Minister and Member Legislative Assembly (MLA) G M Saroori grieved over death of four passengers in a road accident in Kishtwar district today.
N. N. Vohra, Governor, has expressed grief over the loss of precious human lives in a road accident in Kishtwar district today.
In a message, the Governor has conveyed his sympathy to the bereaved families and prayed for speedy recovery of all those injured in this accident. The Governor has also reminded, yet again, the Police, Traffic and Transport departments to enforce effective measures to ensure against the recurrence of fatal accidents.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has expressed grief over the loss of precious human lives lost in a tragic road accident on Sarthal-Gana road in Kishtwar district this morning.
The Chief Minister in his condolence message has expressed his sympathy to the bereaved families and prayed for peace to the departed souls. He has also prayed for early recovery of injured.
Minister of State for Home, Industries & commerce and Tourism, Sajad Ahmad Kichloo has expressed profound grief and shock over the death of 4 passengers in a road accident at Saroor in district Kishtwar.
Kichloo on hearing about the accident immediately rushed to the spot and supervised the rescue operation. Two seriously injured passengers were airlifted to Medical College Jammu whereas other injured were admitted in local Health institution for treatment.
Kichloo announced Rs one lakh in favour of next of kin (NoK) of each deceased passenger as ex-gratia relief out of Chief Minister’s relief fund, whereas Rs 10,000 were paid to each injured passenger.
Mr Kichloo has directed the doctors and para-medicos to provide best possible treatment to injured.
In his condolence message, Kichloo, while conveying his sympathies with the bereaved families prayed for eternal peace to the departed soul.
Expressing grief over the loss of precious lives in the tragic road accident, Former Minister and Member Legislative Assembly (MLA) G M Saroori has demanded deployment of more SRTC buses in the hilly districts. “The mishap occurred when two-seater passenger bearing no JKO6 1361 was on way from Kishtwar to Sarthal skidded off the road and rolled down near village Dori Sarthal of District Kishtwar,"
Saroori conveyed his heart felt sympathies and solidarity with the bereaved family and prayed for eternal peace to the departed soul. He also prayed for the early recovery of those injured in the accident. Those injured in the accident should be provided free of cost medical treatment, he added. He regretted that such accidents have become a routine affair but no concrete action has been taken so far by the government to save precious human lives.
When accident took place Saroori appeal to Chief Minister J&K Omar Abdullah to immediately release Rs 1 Lakh in favour of victims and with in no time Chief Minister had release the ex-gratia in favour of the victims. Saroori thanks CM Omar for releasing the said amount in favour of the victims.
Saroori also demanded deployment of more SRTC buses in the hilly district especially Bhalessa, Khara, Bunjwah, Sarthal, Saroor, Chatroo, Thakrie and other areas besides undertaking strict checking of the vehicles plying on these roads besides imposing ban on use of mobile phones by the drivers. He regretted that such accidents have become a routine affair but no concrete action has been taken so far by the government to save precious human lives. He also demanded to take effective steps in checking frequent accidents adding that the government should direct Traffic Police to keep a strict check on overloading and plying of old model buses due to which road mishaps have become a routine affair.
It is worthwhile to mention here that four persons Naib Chand resident of Agral, Noor Din resident of Angara, Raj Vali resident of Ladsa and Safia Begum she was wife of Raj Vali. Those critically injured are Baji Ahmed son of Noor Mohd, he was a driver and Shree Lal son of Gussan Lal. Both of them have been shifted to Kishtwar hospital in the morning but within an hour Divisional Commissioner Pardeep Gupta on demand by Saroori has send an Army chopper and the injured one have been shifted to Government Medical College Jammu.
Later Saroori visited GMC Jammu and asked the doctors about the status of injured and directed them to extend best Medicare to them for their early recovery.
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