Centre needs to get state report to declare J&K floods as

The Jammu and Kashmir government will have to submit a report about the devastation caused by the September floods to the central government for it to consider declaring the natural calamity as a national disaster, the state unit of BJP today said.
"There is a procedure. A report, about the destruction caused by the floods, should first go from the state government to the Centre. Once the report is submitted, then, I am sure, the central government will consider declaring the floods as a national disaster," chairman of BJP's state campaign committee Nirmal Singh told reporters here.
Singh said once the state government submits the report, the party will also take it up with the central government.

"They (political parties in Kashmir) are politicising the issue. The Centre has done a commendable job right from day one of the floods. Once the report is submitted, we will also take it up with the government," he said.
Singh alleged the state administration had failed to provide succour to the people when they needed it the most.
"The administration was nowhere to be seen. They did not come to peoples' help as was needed. Eid is being celebrated in a few days. How will the people here, who have no food, shelter or clothes, celebrate the festival?" he said.

He claimed there was anger against the state government as it had "failed" to do its moral duty.
"Wherever you go, there is anger. The state government has not gone up to the people to help them. It was the moral duty of the government but they failed in performing that," he said.