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Relatives panic as helplines, phones down Jammu, September 8 With helpline numbers not working and calls on mobile and landline phones yielding no response, anxious relatives are making rounds of government offices and requesting authorities to get feedback of situation via satellite phones. “Since Sunday noon, our calls to relatives are yielding responses such as “this call can not be completed” or “the network is busy”, said Ajay Behl, a Jammu resident. “We have failed to establish any contact with our people. They are stranded in Chutrashahi area, which is close to the new civil secretariat in Srinagar. When we spoke to them last, they had taken refuge on the third storey of a building, two floors of which were submerged,” said Behl. He visited the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Jammu and requested him to take up the matter with authorities in Srinagar and ensure speedy rescue of those stuck in floodwaters. “I hope they all are fine. I m keeping my fingers crossed,” said Behl. Arun Sharma, a businessman, whose relatives and employees were stuck in submerged localities in Srinagar, said, “I was able to establish a contact with my brother, who had taken shelter near the Shankaracharya temple, after 16 hours.”“My brother is safe but I am worried about our 30 employees who were huddled on the rooftop of a multi-storey building in Pampore in Pulwama district. The water-level was rising when I last spoke to them on Sunday,” said Sharma. Aman Khajuria, a resident of Trikuta Nagar here, said his relatives from New Delhi had gone for a tour in Srinagar. “They were stranded in Gogibagh area. After we requested a senior Army officer in New Delhi, five of my relatives were rescued. Three of them were still stuck and with no telecommunication services, it’s getting difficult to trace them,” he said. The Jammu-Srinagar NH, the road link connecting the Valley with rest of the country, remained closed for the seventh consecutive day today making it difficult to transport the relief material. Special prayers *
With all communication links snapped, anxious relatives are making desperate attempts to know the welfare of their relatives stuck in the Valley *
They have requested authorities to get feedback of the situation via satellite phones *
Jammu residents are organising special prayers for safety of those stuck in floodwaters
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