Water is descending, but Punjab’s pain has just started … 39 lives are over, thousands of homeless

Sometimes where the songs of flourish crops and happiness resonated, today there is only silence, mud and ruin in those fields and villages of Punjab. The flood water is slowly descending, but has left such a painful story of destruction, which will probably take years to forget.

This is not just a flood, it is a disaster that came to Punjab 39 lives Snatched away forever and Thousands of families Took homeless in a stroke. Today people are forced to hide their heads in relief camps or under a tarpaulin on the roadside, there is only one question in their eyes – ‘What will happen to us now?’

Home drowned, dreams broken …

Think of the pain of the farmer who grown the crop by applying all his deposits and blood and sweat, and today his crop is rotting in the water in front of the eyes. Think about the family who built a small house from the earnings of his life, and today there was nothing left in that house but water and mud to the waist. People’s household items, children’s books, jewelry kept for marriage… Everything was swept away in the water.

These are not figures, this is the story of broken expectations of thousands of people who are craving for one bread and clean water drop today.

Humanity handled the front

Amidst this terrible tragedy, humanity has become the biggest hope. The government and administration are engaged in relief work, but at the same time many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local gurdwaras have taken the task of eating and drinking people by launching. The youth of the village themselves are sitting on tractor-trolleys and reaching the areas where people are still trapped.

People are being accommodated in relief camps, providing medicines and necessary goods, but this help is very small in front of the disadvantage that people have suffered.

The real challenge will now begin when the water will completely come down. Rebuilding broken houses, making fields again cultivable and bringing life back on track … This is going to be a very long and difficult fight. The whole country stands with Punjab today and is praying that they get courage in this difficult time.