Srinagar: To provide maximum safety and security to the life and property of the victims of last Saturday?s earthquake, the Centre has decided to build quake-proof houses in Jammu and Kashmir.
Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Ghulam Nabi Azad recently said that the government would train construction labourers in hi-tech designs and technology to repair the state.
Centre's Natural Calamity Relief Fund has released Rs 1,160 lakh for immediate restoration of essential services and providing financial assistance to the quake-affected people of Uri, Tangdhar and Poonch.
"We will make free demonstration centres where engineers will make models and those models will be followed by engineers and masons in Kashmir. They will be trained on how to erect quake proof houses in the region," said Azad.
Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Mohammad Sayeed assured that each household would be adequately compensated.
"We have decided that from the package announced by the Prime Minister, we will give Rs 1,00,000 to those whose houses have collapsed," said Sayeed.
The reconstruction cost involved would be around Rs 500 crore.
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