6-September-2006 Jaipur <\/p>\n
CENTRAL STUDY TEAM ASSURES ALL POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE FOR FLOOD AFFECTED AREAS<\/p>\n
The Central Study Team has assured that all efforts would be made to provide every possible assistance for the flood affected areas of Rajasthan. The members of the team said that they had extensively toured the affected districts and seen the damage caused by heavy rains. They assured that they would sympathically consider the situation and sensitively prepare the over all report to be submitted to the Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Central Study Team led by the Registrar General (Census) Shri D.K. Sikri gave this assurance at a meeting organized under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary Shri Anil Vaish here today. The Inter-Ministerial Central Team had come to the state on the sport assessment of the situation in the wake of heavy rains and flood in Rajasthan. <\/p>\n
The Chief Secretary said on the occasion that the state had witnessed an unprecedented situation of heavy rainfall particularly in Western Rajasthan which was totally unfamiliar and thus there was no preparedness to meet this kind of situation. He said that the normal assistance provided by the Centre was not adequate keeping in view the nature and the magnitude of this calamity. <\/p>\n
Shri Vaish requested the team members to make a submission of extraordinary assistance for the flood affected areas of Rajasthan apart from the assistance provided under the C.R.F. and N.C.C.F. norms, since the state had witnessed an extraordinary situation. He informed that the State Government had submitted a memorandum asking for a package of assistance of Rs.3200 crores and the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh had also assured the Chief Minister, Smt. Vasundhara Raje during her meeting with him on Tuesday that Centre would provide every assistance to the flood affected people of Rajasthan.<\/p>\n
The Chief Secretary said that public assets to the tune of crores of Rupees had been devastated by incessant rains and flood in the state and they need to be restored which requires long term assistance. He asked the members of the team to reflect this damage in the report and recommend some package provided in natural calamities like T-sunami, earth quakes for Rajasthan also so as to assist in repair and renovation of roads, restoration of drinking water supply, power line and sources of this irrigation, besides the immediate relief measures to the affected people.<\/p>\n
Shri Anil Vaish appreciated the efforts made by all the agencies in the relief and rescuing measures specially the efforts of the Defence forces including the Army, Air force and the Indian Navy in rescuing the people in Kawas and Malwa village in Barmer district. He said that substantial damage had been caused to roads, bridges, canals, dams, ponds, power, drinking
\nwater supply, crops, irrigation apart from huge misery to the people living in those areas including the cattle wealth. He said that though the State Government was doing everything that it should do to provide relief to the affected people but it needed support of Centre to meet this calamity.<\/p>\n
The Leader of the team, Shri D.K. Sikri said that a lot of good work had been done both by the government and the voluntary sector in providing relief to the flood affected people. He outlined the need to have a clear policy on how assistance would be provided in regard to the housing and for replacement of animals. He said that issues like debris clearance and compensation to be paid on the damage of the ‘Kaccha and Pacca’ houses should be addressed effectively. He also emphasized that the housing needs should be assessed and it should be clearified that whether all damaged houses had to be given assistance or the one which qualifies for assistance. <\/p>\n
Shri Sikri said that correct assessment should also be made about how people be provided help under various schemes and what criteria should be followed to provide compensation to small and marginal farmers because in Barmer and Jaisalmer the size of agriculture holdings was very large. He said that the State Government would have to come out with some support not otherwise provided under C.R.F.<\/p>\n
The Additional Chief Secretary, Development, Shri A.K. Pandey urged that the norms under the C.R.F. should be revised to a more realistic pattern. He also outlined the need to have a specific policy for replacement of animals under C.R.F. norms. <\/p>\n
The Principal Secretary, Medical and Health, Shri Sudhir Bhargava informed that keeping in view the outbreak of diseases in the affected areas due to the stagnated water, efforts have been made to ensure that the drinking water sources do not get contaminated. He said that more than 10 thousand drinking water sources had been disinfected and bleaching powder had been distributed to the people. He said that care had also been taken to prevent malaria in the affected areas by putting Gambujia fishes in the hatcheries in all the 12 districts apart from spraying DDT. He also informed that efforts were being made to increase the number of medical teams so that all villages could be covered. <\/p>\n
The Principal Secretary Finance Shri Rajiv Maharishi, Principal Secretary Panchayati Raj Shri Ram Lubhaya, Principal Secretary UDH Shri Lalit K.Panwar, Principal Secretary PWD Shri C.S. Rajan, Principal Secretary Irrigation Shri S.N. Thanvi, Secretary Relief Shri R.K. Meena, Secretary, PHED Shri Bharat Meena, Energy Shri Yaduvendra Mathur also informed about the losses caused due to flood in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rajasthan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}