Expressing concern over loss of livestock and damage caused to the blossom of crops due to heavy rains, CPI(M) senior leader and MLA, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami has urged the administration to make immediate assessment of the losses and to provide relief to the affectees of this natural calamity. In a statement issued today, Tarigami said that the heavy incessant rains have caused loss of livestock in some parts of the state, besides crops have also been affected due these rains.  Generally livestock rearers and farmers are vulnerable to natural calamities that tell upon their economies.  Livestock and crop insurance policies could have been the only means to provide succor to them, which unfortunately await formulation and implementation in the state. Referring to the devastation caused by incessant rains to the residential houses and damages to other properties including cultivatable land, Tarigami urged the present dispensation in the state to come out with a comprehensive strategy for immediate compensation to the affected families. The rains have also affected the means of communication especially the road transport across the state and blockade of Srinagar-Jammu National highway and Batote-Kishtwar road have halted large number of passengers without any facilities extended by the respective divisional administrations.  He appealed the administration to come to the rescue of the held up people by providing free necessary amenities to them at all halting points. Source - dailykashmirimages.com