July 23, 2025 08:02 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Air India completes inspections of Fuel Control Switch on Boeing aircrafts after deadly Ahmedabad crash | Supreme Court refuses to stop QR code directive for eateries along Kanwar Yatra route | 'Can't allow Aadhaar, Voter ID, Ration cards as eligible documents for SIR': Election Commission to Supreme Court | 'Wish him good health': PM Modi on Jagdeep Dhankhar's shock resignation | 'There are far deeper reasons': Congress on Jagdeep Dhankhar's shock resignation as Veep | Donald Trump ended India-Pakistan war: White House repeats 'ceasefire' claim | Bangladesh: 27 people, including 25 students, die in jet crash | Mamata Banerjee says SIR won't be allowed in Bengal, threatens to launch movement if exercise is attempted | Deeply shocked and saddened: Narendra Modi on Bangladesh aviation tragedy | Former Kerala CM VS Achuthanandan dies at 101 after prolonged illness
Flood Damages

Flash floods Public utility works suffer Rs 1.6 cr damage in Jammu

| @indiablooms | Jul 15, 2021, at 07:08 pm

Jammu: Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have damaged 257 public utility works in Jammu district, mostly belonging to the Jal Shakti, Roads and Building and Health departments.

This disclosure was made in an assessment report prepared by the district administration Jammu with regard to the losses the government departments suffered due to heavy rains on Monday. “An estimate of Rs 1.60 Cr is required to be spent for the restoration of works damaged in the rains and flash floods across the Jammu district,” said the Deputy Commissioner Jammu, Anshul Garg.

Garg said that the electricity wires, poles, boundary walls suffered the maximum damage in rains. “Of total 257 works, which suffered damages, around 150 utility works related to water and electricity supply have been restored,” he added. The DC said that the restoration of 107 works was in progress.

They would be restored shortly by the respective departments, he said.

Another officer in the administration told Greater Kashmir that one kachcha house was completely destroyed, five kachcha houses suffered severe damage while 10 concrete houses were partially damaged at Kalika Colony. Besides two teen-sheds and five houses sustained damages in Jammu North where the private properties also suffered heavy damages during incessant rains yesterday.

One protection wall, one bridge, three boundary walls and one drainage channel also got damaged in Jammu district in the heavy downpour.

In Kathua district, four residential houses were badly damaged, while partial damage was reported in case of 6 houses and three cow sheds, informed the Deputy Commissioner Kathua, Rahul Yadav.

Yadav said that the Irrigation and Flood Control department works and properties along the Ujh and Tarna rivers suffered extensive damage in the flash-floods.

These rivers had touched the danger mark, a day before the heavy rains lashed the district.
He, however, said that Bani-Basohli road, which was blocked due to landslides, was restored for vehicular traffic. However, there was no loss of human life anywhere in the district, he added.

Besides Irrigation and Flood Control department, Power Development Department, Jal Shakti and Health departments suffered major losses due to the rains, he added.

Yadav said that restoration work was in progress.

Heavy rains lashed most parts of Jammu region on Monday causing extensive damage to the public as well as private property as the encroached and choked nallahs and drains wreaked havoc even in the residential localities.

The official figures available claimed that 50 families also lost their household items in the flash floods and rains across the region. The assessment of damages, though, was still in progress.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
Close menu