CM Sukhu announces Rs 5,000 monthly rent for affected families

CM informs Amit Shah astir damages; rescue and alleviation operations successful afloat plaything successful flood-hit areas

NDRF squad team during a rescue cognition astatine Seraj successful Mandi connected Friday. Photo: Jai Kumar

Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu contiguous said rescue and alleviation operations were successful afloat plaything successful rain-affected areas and that Union Home Minister Amit Shah had assured of each imaginable help.

Talking to media persons present today, Sukhu said helium had spoken with Union Home Minister astir implicit Rs 700 crore nonaccomplishment suffered successful these areas. He said a Central squad volition sojourn the affected areas soon to measure the damages.

The CM said, “It is incorrect connected the portion of Leader of Opposition to politicise a earthy catastrophe and mislead people. He had spoken with maine yesterday and each elder officers person spoken with him arsenic well. I tried to widen each imaginable assistance and adjacent got ration delivered.”

He said the that the authorities authorities has decided to supply Rs 5,000 per period arsenic location rent to disaster-affected families whose homes person been damaged and were surviving successful rented accommodation. He said that the SDMs acrophobic person been directed to supply nutrient supplies to the affected people.

Sukhu said dense rainfall caused extended harm to homes and onshore successful the Seraj and Dharampur areas of Mandi. “A full of 14 cloudburst incidents person occurred successful Mandi unsocial this monsoon season, which is simply a substance of concern. There is request to survey wherefore specified incidents are happening frequently. I raised it with Amit Shah also,” helium added.

He said owed to the rain, roads, energy infrastructure and drinking h2o proviso schemes had been severely impacted. Sukhu said that astir 300 roads were presently blocked successful the state, 790 drinking h2o schemes damaged and 332 powerfulness transformers affected.

He added that successful Mandi territory alone, 402 persons had been rescued arsenic portion of alleviation operations. Responding to a query connected NHAI projects successful the state, the Chief Minister said that the NHAI should see awarding specified contracts to section contractors acquainted with the region.