Jaipur: 30-August-2006 <\/p>\n
FLOOD RELIEF: Rs.3200 CRORE MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED TO CENTRE<\/p>\n
The State Government has submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister asking for a special package of over Rs.3200 crores for the damage cause due to flood in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Relief Minister, Dr. Kirori Lal Meena informed this at a press briefing here on Wednesday. He said that Rs. 1.34 crores had been demanded for ex-gratia payment to families of deceased persons, Rs.124.27 crores for repair and restoration assistance for damaged houses, Rs.333.99 crores for immediate restoration of roads, Rs. 53.30 crores for restoration of drinking water supply, Rs.37.11 crores for restoration of water resources, Rs.28.77 crores for restoration of damaged tanks of PRIs, Rs. 520.65 crores for input subsidy to affected farmers, Rs.106.56 crores for medical and health care and Rs.212.24 crores for veterinary health care for livestock & replacement subsidy of dead animals.<\/p>\n
Dr. Meena informed that Rs. 74.65 crores had been asked for restoration of power supply network, Rs.400 crores for miscellaneous things including damage to the mining and relocation of submerged villages, Rs.1230.08 crores for wage employment to affected families, Rs.10 crores for air dropping of essential services and hiring helicopters, Rs. 2 crores for evacuation of people affected, Rs. 10 crores for temporary accommodation, food and clothing and Rs. 50 crores for draining of flood water in affected areas.<\/p>\n
The Relief Minister said that Rs. five crores had been demanded as cost for search and rescue and Rs. one crore as cost of clearance of debris. <\/p>\n
The Secretary Relief Shri R.K. Meena informed that the State Government had spent Rs. 536.42 crores on relief operations so far. He said that state had an opening balance of Rs. 51.52 crores in the calamity relief fund in the year 2004-05. He said that the state received 163.66 crores from the Centre and after including the state share of Rs.54.55 crores the total Rs.218.21 crores were with the State Government. Thus over Rs.318 crores more had been spent in relief operation so far, he added.<\/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-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rajasthan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}