The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), which enforces law and order in the cities of the revolt-wracked state, was to look after Kamalkote, one of the worst-hit places in the mountainous Uri district close to Pakistan.

At least 122 of Kamalkote's 163 houses were flattened, 155 of its 1,680 residents killed, 700 injured and 95 men, women and children still reported missing.

"We will undertake the entire rehabilitation work to be carried out there," said CRPF Director-General J. K. Sinha in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir.

He said CRPF personnel had established a round-the-clock community kitchen, 165 temporary shelters and a medical centre in the village, linked to the world by only a dirt road.

Kashmiri politicians questioned the involvement of the federal police organisation in relief operations Tuesday after two suspected militants breached a CRPF security cordon and killed a junior education minister at his home in Srinagar.

About 120,000 of the 150,000 people made homeless in Indian Kashmir are stranded in Uri district near a de facto border which divides the two zones of the Himalayan territory.

More than 1,300 people were killed in the quake in Indian Kashmir, while the toll in the Pakistani zone of the Himalayan territory has hit 41,000.

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