Jammu, Nov. 9 -- After two back-to-back fire incidents at Shiv Market and Warehouse, the government is seriously considering rehabilitating the affected shopkeepers and traders through special funds to adequately compensate their losses.
Over 35 shops were gutted to ashes in Shiv Market near Railway Station Jammu in the intervening night of October 25 and 26. While the authorities were preparing a report to assess the total loss, a massive fire engulfed Warehouse, Jammu on November 8, resulting in losses worth crores.
Sources said that during his visit to the Shiv Market along with senior officers, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah directed the officers to prepare detailed reports about individual losses of the shopkeepers so that they could b...