CM disburses over Rs 456cr flood relief among 6 lakh families in 12 districts
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Patna: CM
Nitish Kumar
on Wednesday transferred gratuitous relief (GR) worth Rs 456.12 crore to the bank accounts of the identified flood-affected families, a week after he conducted an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas in Patna, Vaishali, Begusarai and Munger.
As many as 6.51 lakh identified flood-affected families belonging to 12 districts received the GR amount of Rs 7,000 each through direct benefit transfer (DBT) at a function held at the Sankalp auditorium in the CM's official residence.
Of the 12 flood-affected districts, Bhojpur, Patna, Saran, Vaishali, Samastipur, Begusarai, Lakhisarai, Munger, Khagaria, Bhagalpur and Katihar were flooded with river Ganga water in Aug, while Nalanda district's eight panchayats in four blocks were hit by floods caused by excessive rain in neighbouring Jharkhand in July.
The CM said he first reviewed the flood situation on Aug 13, and then conducted the aerial survey of the flood-affected parts of four districts the next day. The disbursement of the GR amount has been done to provide timely assistance to the flood-affected families, the CM said, asking the officials of the departments concerned, including the disaster management, and district magistrates to also remain alert for Sept rain.
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"Respond to the problems faced by the flood-affected people with sensitivity," the CM told them.
Pratyaya Amrit, the disaster management department's additional chief secretary, said that 38 lakh people of 68 blocks in 12 districts were hit by the flood. Majority of them belonged to the districts lying along the river Ganga, he added.
During the peak flood, 2.19 lakh polythene sheets and 57,639 dry ration packets were distributed among the marooned people, while 15,000 people took shelter at flood relief camps and 85 lakh had food at the community kitchen centres.
Among those who participated in the Wednesday's function were disaster management minister Vijay Kumar Mandal; principal secretary to CM, Deepak Kumar; chief secretary Amrit Lal Meena, development commissioner Amrit; disaster management department's secretary Chandrashekhar Singh; and CM's secretaries Anupam Kumar and Kumar Ravi, besides the 12 district magistrates connected through videoconferencing.
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