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SME Times News Bureau | 21 Jul, 2018
A team led by Union Minister Kiren Rijiju arrived in Kerala on Saturday
to visit flood-hit districts amid differences over compensation promised
by the Centre.
Just after his arrival the Union Minister of
State for Home Affairs and his team took a helicopter from the airport
and headed straight to Alappuzha, the worst affected district.
They will also visit Kottayam before returning to Delhi late on Saturday, an official said.
Rijiju
told the media here that the compensation package would be based on
prescribed guidelines. "When a calamity occurs, the Centre and state
jointly works and both pool in their resources. We already have cleared
Rs 80 crore on Friday."
Huge damage has been caused on account
of heavy rains that lashed most parts of the state over two weeks. Some
of the worst-hits include Idukki, Ernakulam, besides parts of Kozhikode,
Thrissur, Wayanad, Palakkad and Kannur.
More than 10,000 people have been put up in relief camps, he added.
The
death toll in these rains touched 20 and according to State Agriculture
Minister V.S. Sunilkumar the total damage has crossed Rs 900 crore.
"About
22,000 hectares of agricultural produce has been destroyed. The biggest
lacunae is the rate of the compensation that is prescribed as these are
all old norms and insufficient," Sunilkumar said on Saturday.
He
said the damage to the crops is around Rs 220 crore. "We will again
brief the Centre the urgency to increase the old compensation rates.
Explaining
the lacuna in compensation, the Agriculture Minister said Rs 95,000 was
being provided for a house completely destroyed. "We have sought an
increase as it requires Rs four lakh," he said.
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