Failure of admin: No respite for those stuck outside
Srinagar: As the unending lockdown continues across India, people who have been stuck in various states have been ruing the day they left their hometowns and got stuck at various places with no money and food available to keep them going.
Hundreds of Kashmir’s too have been affected by this continuing lockdown as they have been trapped in various states with no or least help coming from the administration.
“We wife and minor kid has been stuck in Delhi for over a month now. They had gone for a surgical intervention as my kid was not keeping in good health. Since they have not been able to find a place to stay they are stuck at a philanthropist’s home in Lajpat Nagar,” said Arshid Hussain, who lives in Srinagar.
According to Arshid his wife has been calling the helpline number provided by the local administration here, but the persons incharge offers mere lip service to all those who have been stuck at Delhi or elsewhere.
“It is a worrying situation for all those, especially patients who have got stucke at many places,” added Arshid.
Arshid is not the only person who wishes to see his minor kid and wife back home.
There are others as well who have been left on the mercy of God.
“We are five family members stuck in Chandigarh. We had taken our elder sister for a major surgery. However, we have been discharged from the hospital on March 25 and since then we are putting up at a rented accommodation without any supplies reaching us,” said Manzoor Ahmad.
He said that the local administration here is providing movement pass for only one person and the patient.
“How can one person accompany the patuient who is dependent on all her needs for more than three people,” added Manzoor.
Interestingly, the claims made by the local administration here are proving to be a mirage on ground zero.
Take the case of two visually challenged girls from North Kashmir who are stuck in New Delhi and are pinning hopes on Jammu and Kashmir Government for evacuation.
Being visually challenged, both these girls are finding it really very hard to survive in an environment incompatible for them.
Twenty-four years old Khalida Yousuf and 25 year old Zahida Lone are stuck at two different places in New Delhi. Khailda hails from Door Sopore while Zahida is the resident of Anwar Abad Kupwara area of North Kashmir.
“I study at NIETTVD Dehradun that is a school for blind. I am doing a course there. I was supposed to take a flight on 24 March but due to suspension of air and surface traffic, I got stuck and thankfully, a friend of mine at Pratab Bagh Sangam Park in New Delhi provided me shelter. I am completely dependent on them. My family members are helpless to take me back to home,” Khalida said.
She said from past four weeks she is in New Delhi and desperately wants to go home. “I am blind and you can understand my problem,” she said.
Another visually challenged girl Zahida also narrated her ordeal and is keen to reach home but is stuck at National Association for the Blind Hostel in RK Puram New Delhi.
“We are two Kashmiri students stuck here and want to go home. There seems to be no light at the end of tunnel. I am disappointed. So many students got help from Kashmir government but it didn’t care for those who are weak and physically challenged,” she said. (with inputs from KNT)
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