60 fire incidents reported in Jammu region, 30 in city alone

Arvind Sharma

JAMMU Tawi, Nov 09: A total of sixty (60) fire incidents were reported in the Jammu Province yesterday till late night on occasion of Diwali, the festival of lights, and the fire that broke out in the Ware House Jammu was the worst as it caused losses to the traders in crores.

“The fire that broke out in the Ware House last night caused a loss of more than Rs 10 cr,” President of Ware House Traders Federation, Deepak Gupta, said, when contacted by the Northlines.

Sources said that 8 godowns were completely gutted in the devastating fire that broke out in the Ware House last night.

They said that out of the total 60 fire incidents in Jammu Province, thirty (30) such incidents were from different areas of Jammu City alone including Janipur, Roop Nagar, Gandhi Nagar and some other areas of the city.

Meanwhile, the Leader of Opposition (Lop), Sunil Sharma, today convened a meeting of the senior J&K BJP leaders, including some MLAs of the BJP, it was decided that LoP and some senior party leaders will meet Chief Secretary (CS) and the Finance Commissioner tomorrow to demand compensation for the affected traders of the Ware House and the Jammu Railway Station, where major the fire incident occurred.

The meeting was attended by former J&K BJP President, Ravinder Raina, Yudhvir Sethi, Arvind Gupta, Vikram Randhawa and senior leaders of the BJP.

“Apart from Chief Secretary and the Finance Commissioner, we will also meet the Chief Minister with demand that a special provision/amendment under the special circumstances be made so that all the BJP MLAs could compensate the affected traders from their Constituency Development Fund (CDF),” BJP MLA, Vikram Randhawa, informed the Northlines.

Each MLA of the BJP will contribute Rs 10 cr from his CDF if the CM, CS and the Finance Commissioner agree to our demand for making special provision to compensate the affected traders of Ware House and the Jammu Railway Station, Randhawa further said.