Bikash
Choudhury
Omar Abdulla, the young highly educated and intelligent
Chief Minister of J & K in one of his television interaction said “we
have informed the residents of Srinagar and other places to move to higher
grounds and the same was done through Mosques
in all residential areas; however, people did not act on such advise”.
This is simply stupidity of a chief minister to give an excuse like a failed
sales man. Now, after watching a week of pain and agony of the residents of
capital city of J &K; it can be
said with authority that the young chief minister of J&K is not only
incompetent but also very insensitive. At the least, he could have emulated the
example of Odisha where a million people were shifted in just three days just
before the super cyclone Phaline struck the Odisha coast in October last year.
It requires simple arithmetic to understand and realize that Srinagar City
could be swamped by flood if it rains with the intensity that it had recently
(280mm of rains in three days) knowing the topography of the city. While
writing this piece it brings sadness knowing that still 3-5 lakhs of people are
yet to be evacuated from their flooded homes as they mostly live without food,
water, electricity and communication facility for over an week. In a disaster
like this we could have deployed our navy in greater numbers and could have
sourced 10,000-20,000 mechanized boats from all across the World to evacuate
people from their homes, deployed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to restore the communication
networks, Prefab Buildings for Shelters and used sophisticated Project
Management Techniques backed by IT services to provide World class relief &
rehabilitation services for marooned people of Srinagar City and other affected
parts of J&K State. This could have been done provided the State Govt.
would have a competent leader as its chief minister. God gave a great
opportunity to Omar Abdulla to display his administrative and leadership skill;
however, sadly he failed miserably in both counts. He should hang his head in
shame for failing his own people and heaping miseries in their lives. It is
feared that Omar could actually be lynched by mob if he ventures out to
campaign for his party in the upcoming State election.
The frequency and ferocity with which natural disasters are
happening in our country; it is about time to invite our private sector to
offer Disaster Mitigation Services with art & science of technology &
management at a price as the civil administration failed to rise to the occasion
again and again. Today a prayer should be in our lips to keep our brothers and
sisters of J&K safe & sound and hale and hearty as our turn could be
the next.
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