RAMBAN/JAMMU: Three extra residential homes and a 33-kV energy transmission line had been broken due to “sinking” of land in the hilly Duksar Dalwa village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district, officers mentioned on Monday. A staff of Geological Survey of India (GSI) is visiting the village on Tuesday to verify the explanations for the sudden “sinking” of land, which has to this point rendered 16 households homeless in addition to damaging a 500-metre stretch of now closed Sangaldan-Gool street, the officers mentioned.
Ramban Deputy Commissioner Mussarat Islam visited the village and interacted with the affected households, assuring them of each doable assist from the administration in their rehabilitation.
He directed the Gool Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Tanveer-ul-Majeed Wani, to course of aid circumstances of broken homes on war-footing beneath SDRF to present help to victims in the shortest doable time.
Islam mentioned a complete of 16 affected households have been shifted to safer locations, in addition to offering tents, blankets and utensils to them.
The land sinking in the village began on Friday and to this point 16 homes had been broken, with three of them growing cracks on the intervening evening of Sunday and Monday.
The GSI consultants are scheduled to arrive at Duksar on Tuesday to verify the explanations behind the sinking of land, the officers mentioned, including the electrical energy provide to a dozen panchayats in Gool was snapped following injury to the 33-kV energy transmission line passing by way of the village.
The deputy commissioner additionally inspected the Dharam-Salballa street to use it as a short lived alternate route for regulating important companies and provides to Gool and directed the Public Works Department to make the street site visitors worthy.
He additionally handed the instructions to officers involved for the restoration of energy and water provide in affected areas, the officers mentioned, including instructions got for fast relaying of the 33 KV community in order that energy provide to Gool is restored.
