Bandipora admin constitutes committee to ascertain cause of fire at BMO office.

Bandipora, Nov 27 : Administration in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Saturday constituted an enquiry committee to ascertain the cause of the fire incident that damaged the block medical office building Bandipora on last Thursday.

An order issued by the DC Bandipora, a copy of which lies with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), stated that a four member committee headed by additional district development commissioner Bandipora with executive engineer KPDCL division Bandipora, assistant director fire and emergency services Bandipora and Tehsildar Bandipora as its members has been constituted to probe the matter and submit the factual report within a period of two weeks.

Block Medical Officer Bandipora has been asked to extend full cooperation to the enquiry committee.

Meanwhile, BMO Bandipora Dr Masrat Iqbal said that the exact details about damaged records are being ascertained while around 60 service books of paramedical staff might have been damaged in the fire. He further said that the order records related to Covid-19 and NHM employees are fully safe.

“If anyone’s record could have been damaged during the fire mishap the same will be provided to him from the computer as the records including salary, and service books of the employees working in the block were already with us,” he said.

The worried employees working in the medical block meanwhile appealed to the director health services Kashmir to personally visit the site and ascertain the facts behind it as they have apprehensions that their service documents have been damaged in the mishap which may cause the problem to them in future at the time of retirement—(KNO)