13 months later, flood victims angry over slow rehabilitation

Thirteen months after the devastating floods, thousands of victims are angry over the paltry compensation provided by the state’s coalition government, which had promised swift rehabilitation. The state government has so far provided no compensation to thousands of affected businesses, which suffered great losses during the last year’s devastating floods with Srinagar city’s main trading centres submerged for over a month. “The business community is not happy as they have not received anything,” Mushtaq Wani, president of the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries, told. Wani, who represents more than…

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