SKARDU, Nov 15: The flood affected people of Kandey village in Ghanche district are living in a miserable state owing to the indifferent attitude of the district administration and the elected representatives for the last three years.

Kandey Union Council Vice-Chairman Mohammed Iqbal and others told this correspondent during a visit to the village that heavy flood and landslides had hit the area in July 2000. As a result, 900 people of 130 of the 135 families in the village were displaced.

The villagers urged President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali to announce a relief package fro them.

A village elder said the flood had devastated thousands of kanals of farmland and thousands of trees. However, no causality occurred as the residents had shifted to safer places.

He said the victims took shelter at Kini Das between Hushey and Kandey and they had to sell their livestock and farm land for constructing there huts.

Administration officials visited the affected area several times and promised help to the people, but no action was taken in this regard during the last three years, the villagers said.