In the wake of embankment damage at Tendiwala village due to heavy discharge of water from Pakistan, Punjab Cabinet Minister Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi along with Ferozepur Deputy Commissioner Chander Gaind and SSP Vivek S Soni on Sunday visited the village to oversee the work of repairing the damaged embankment.Maintaining that the danger is over now as the embankment has been secured, Sodhi said that this situation came up due to heavy water discharge from Pakistan, which caused severe damage to the embankment.

After inspecting the repair work, the Minister reiterated the State Government’s commitment to compensate every single penny of the loss incurred by people due to floods.“I have directed the Deputy Commissioner to prepare a report of loss within 15 days, be it the damage of houses, livestock, and crops, and submit it with the government,” said Sodhi.

He further said that the State Government would stand by the people in this hour of crisis and will leave no stone unturned to help the people affected. “It is the alertness of the District Administration that the repair work of damaged embankment is started just after receiving the information. Otherwise, it could have brought havoc over the villages,” he said.

The Minister had a meeting with the residents of Tendiwala village and paid Rs 15,000 from his pocket as compensation incurred by the villagers as fuel expenses to repair the embankment.

He asked the District Administration to pay the other expenses to the villages as well, which were incurred by them while doing this repair job

Sodhi also lauded the Deputy Commissioner’s efforts to deploy Army and NDRF team well in time to repair the damaged embankment besides deputing teams of Health and other key departments to combat any kind of flood-like situation.