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Court orders continued food aid for Indian Kashmir
1/6/2006
 

          SRINAGAR, India, Jan 5 (AFP): Indian Kashmir state officials have been ordered by a court to supply food and kerosene for another month to survivors of October's deadly earthquake, an official said Thursday.
"The orders were passed by the region's Chief Justice Bashir Khan and senior Justice Bashir Kirmani on Wednesday," a court official told the news agency.
He said a group of lawyers filed suit to force the state to continue providing food for January in the worst-hit northern sectors of Uri and Tangdhar, and to increase kerosene allotments to 10 litres (2.6 gallons) from six litres at subsidised rates.
The October 8 earthquake killed some 1,300 people in Indian Kashmir and left more than 150,000 homeless. More than 73,000 died across the border in Pakistani Kashmir and North West Frontier province.
The state and federal government, working with the army in the insurgency-hit region, has provided cash to survivors to rebuild their houses as well as food supplies.
"We have provided free rations to the survivors for the months of November and December," said Basharat Ahmed, the Kashmir valley's relief commissioner.
But the lawyers urged the court to order extended free food supplies for at least the month of January in the face of a heavy snowfall and bitter cold.
"The government has decided to comply with the court order and the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has directed officials to supply free rations to the survivors for January too," his spokesman Farooq Renzu told AFP.
Renzu said Azad has also asked the officials to ensure there is enough sugar and rice in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir valley for next week's festival of Eid-ul-Adha.

 

 
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