Srinagar: The flood-inundated Jammu and Kashmir secretariat, which houses offices of the chief minister, his ministerial colleagues and all the top bureaucrats, yesterday resumed functioning after 16 days.
The civil secretariat, the state legislature complex and the high court complex were inundated on September 7 causing damage to the records kept in these institutions.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah yesterday morning visited all these sites to ascertain the latest situation. He, along with various ministers and senior officials, reviewed the relief and rehabilitation work in a meeting he chaired in the secretariat.
Abdullah He said more attention should be paid to dewatering of water- logged areas particularly in Srinagar city.
Meanwhile, Federal Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari yesterday met Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra and discussed various issues related to the devastation caused by the floods in the state.
Gadkari and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh met Vohra at the Raj Bhavan.
“Gadkari and the governor discussed various issues related to the aftermath of the devastation caused by the unprecedented floods in the state, particularly the serious damage caused to the road network and the washing away of several important bridges,” an official statement said.
The governor raised with Gadkari the importance of speeding up the ongoing four-laning of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway and the need for establishing an alternate route to the existing Batote-Doda road.
IANS
