New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): The Central authorities has launched an advance of Rs 324 crore from the State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) to the flood-hit Assam.
Finance Ministry’s order dated May 25 acknowledged, “Keeping in view of damage caused by floods and landslides in many parts of the State during first of 2022, the amount is being released to the state government in advance on the recommendation received from Ministry of Home Affairs.”Following this, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took to Twitter to specific his gratefulness. “Grateful to Adarniya Pradhan Mantri Shri @narendramodi jiAdarniya Griha Mantri Shri @amitshah ji for releasing an advance of Rs 324 cr from SDRF to help Assam deal with the ongoing flood situation. The funds will ensure timely reliefrehabilitation of affected citizens,” wrote Sarma.
A staff of officers from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday reached Guwahati and held a gathering with Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) officers relating to the harm evaluation of current flood and landslide within the state.
The flood this 12 months has hit many components of Assam and affected nearly 3.46 lakh individuals and 247 villages. According to the reviews of ASDMA, it was mentioned that to speed up an efficient harm evaluation, IMCT members will likely be divided into two teams for visiting the related affected districts.
The first group included the staff chief Ravinesh Kumar, FA, NDMA, Anjali Maurya, Assistant Director, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, Adelbert Sungi, Regional Officer, Ministry of Road Transport and accompanied by P. Vijay Bhaskar Reddy, IAS, Jt. Secretary and Jt. CEO, ASDMA will go to the Cachar and Dima Hasao districts on May 27 and May 28, 2022.
The second group of IMCT together with Jintu Das, Jt. Director, Ministry of Agriculture, Ajay Kumar Sinha, Superintending Engineer, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Kailash Shankla, Under Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India will go to the Darrang, Nagaon, and Hojai districts on May 27 and May 28, 2022.
As per the flood report until date, two individuals misplaced their lives within the flood within the final 24 hours and now a complete of 30 human lives (25 in Flood5 in Landslide) have been misplaced within the first part of the flood until date and 5,61,149 populations of 956 villages in 12 districts stay affected.
A complete of 47,139.12 hectares of crop areas have been affected and 295 aid camps and 70 aid distribution centres have been opened in all affected areas. A complete of 66,836 inmates are staying in these centres. (ANI)