Centre approves Rs 633.73 Cr additional financial assistance for monsoon-affected Himachal

Union Ministery of Home Affairs today approved an additional assistance of 633.73 crore from the National Disaster Response Fund for Himachal Pradesh.

Sharing a tweet the MHA party-state media coordinator said that the state was severely affected due to floods, cloudbursts, and landslides during the southwest monsoon, of the current year.

The Union government said that centre decided to release additional relief on the pursuing matter by the Prime minister. Before providing additional relief 

to affected people, an Inter-Ministerial Central Team took an assessment of the damages.

Tweet said that the union government had deputed the central team without waiting for the Memorandum from the State Government.

 Central Government also claimed that additional assistance in addition to 200 Cr was also released in advance from NDRF on 21st August 2023, to help the State Government in managing the immediate relief operations.

Central Government had earlier released both the installments of its share to SDRF, totaling 360.80 Cr.

Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s government claimed that the state suffered the loss of Rs 12000 Cr. The State Government already announced a Rs 4500 Cr package to rain-affected places and people from its coffers.

The State Government accused the union government of releasing routine funds and not providing additional assistance to the state.