September 19 (IANS) as Chandigarh, Punjab is struggling with unprecedented river floods, causing loss of 56 precious lives, the amount of more than 2,300 villages, the amount of property loss, livelihood and infrastructure, which is Rs 13,800 crore. (Flexibility) ‘, to exclude it despite the most challenging time in four decades and rebuilding the state together.
A remarkable tendency has come to light that the youth of Punjab, who have been branded as “passive” and “drug” in the past, are now becoming a savior of people.
Young men and women are fulfilling their human duties, which are strengthening the river embankments to reach the villagers with daily utilities and to prevent floods of fields and human houses.
As the water levels are restarted after weeks, the displaced families have started returning home to find their homes, crops and livelihoods, even the Punjab government promised to make up for all the victims.
Now, in addition to strengthening embankments and drainage to the rural communities under the leadership of famous celebrities, influential people and community and confidence leaders, in addition to strengthening of a waterfall, it is seen in transformational roles with focus on reconstruction of homes, schools and health facilities.
Since August, heavy monsoon rains and swelling rivers have flooded with water, the country’s food baskets in large parts of Punjab, where more than 2 million people have been affected and five lakh acres of crops have been destroyed after the release of water from upstream dams, which is bursting their banks.
Octoseren Vijay Khanna, a doctor located in Jora, one of the rural city in Ferozeppur, one of the worst destroyed districts, told IANS over the phone that almost every village youths have been assigned duties to do rehabilitation work in flood-prone areas.
This work is to strengthen the river embankments, to establish flood -prepared committees to raise resources and clean the silt and silent left behind by flood water from homes, roads and fields.
“Every youth, who is assigned a duty, is using his tractor-trailer to do community work through a community network,” he said.
Khanna said that it is wrong to project the youth of Punjab as drug addicts. “In fact, they are the ones who first provoked floods, then helped save others and now they are helping in revival of rural livelihood.”
Against the backdrop of large -scale drug abuse among the youth in Punjab, the crime drama ‘Udta Punjab’ highlighted the state’s drug crisis and its dark realities.
In a role in a role from ‘Udta Punjab’, these floods, the worst in living memory, demonstrated the ‘survival-se-pharuthana’ spirit of the youth which is based on the Sikh belief of ‘Sarbat Da Bhala’, which means the welfare of all.
A volunteer with an international charity told IANS, “It is wrong to project the youth of Punjab as drug addicts. They are accustomed to ‘Siva’. Wherever you see the construction of the embankments, it is local youth who is working.
“Can a drug addict can do labor-entrants, only a Punjabi can do only with the strength of young people who are strong, adigal and always in boundary art.”
‘Boundary art’ means the concept of high spirits in all situations, including adversity.
Interestingly, youth are more “soil given service” for relief from floods. “Miti Di Seva” means, a community effort to contribute the Earth to the reconstruction of embankments.
BJP leader Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal wrote on X on Friday, “This holy land of gurus (Punjab) borne the true voice of every Punjabi,” Punjab should get up together. “
He demanded a white paper on floods to fix accountability as he believed that “this was a man -made disaster” and alleged that it was the government’s failure.
In Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Fazilka and Taran Taran districts, global donations with local youth are taking volunteers into their hands and providing relief to villagers for long-term economic stability, beyond two-three months.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann launched ‘Mission Boundary Kala’ this week – a global funding campaign to raise funds for rehabilitation efforts for flood victims.
Chief Minister Mann said that now is the time to move ahead of relief and start rehabilitation as farmers need to sow their fields again, children need to return to school, and families need to reconstruct their homes.
(Vishal Gulati can be contacted on vishal.g@ians.in)
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