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Time of India
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Committee reviews disaster relief plans
Kanpur: Chairman of the Natural Disaster Management Investigation Committee of UP Legislative Council, Avinash Kumar Singh on Tuesday said in a review meeting that in case of a disaster, victim's family should receive relief money within 24 hours and it is the primary responsibility of administration to ensure this. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now He said that clear guidelines have been issued by the state government for providing timely relief to the affected families in case of natural disasters. As per provisions of the state government's directives, in case of all declared disasters a sum of Rs 4 lakh should be transferred to the account of the victim's family. He emphasized on making a long-term disaster management action plan especially keeping in mind the sensitivity of the industrial areas of Kanpur. "Micro plans need to be prepared at micro level for all areas and extra caution should be taken around chemical factories and shoe manufacturing centres", he said. He called upon all the departments to implement relief work in a timely and effective manner by establishing inter-departmental coordination. The district administration officials informed that in the financial year 2022-23, a total of 51 casualties were recorded due to incidents like heavy rainfall, lightning, storm and drowning, in which relief amount of Rs two crore and four lakh was disbursed. In the year 2023-24, a relief amount of Rs 1 crore and 64 lakh was given on the death of 41 people, while in the year 2024-25, so far an assistance amount of Rs 2.84 crore has been provided to the affected families on 71 casualties. Arun Pathak MLC and member of the committee raised the issue of drowning in ponds, rivers and canals. He pointed out that Ganga covers a stretch of 74 kms in the districts and 13 places had already been declared sensitive. Special preventive measures should be adopted there and divers should be deputed there.
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Business Standard
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Peace at time of conflict: Op Sindoor sees Oppn shed discord for solidarity
Instead, the Opposition is rallying behind the government to a man and pledging full support to Operation Sindoor Aditi Phadnis Mumbai Listen to This Article Guns might be blazing on India's western border. But it is all quiet on the Parliament front. The Opposition demand for a joint session of Parliament to hold the government accountable for intelligence and security failures that led to the Pahalgam killings appears to be on the back burner. Lal Bihari Yadav, leader of the Opposition from the Samajwadi Party in the UP Legislative Council, is no longer saying the Pahalgam terrorist attack may have been 'carried out politically'. Instead, the Opposition is rallying behind the government to a man and pledging full support to Operation Sindoor. The Congress is Disclaimer: These are personal views of the writer. They do not necessarily reflect the opinion of or the Business Standard newspaper
