Chandigarh, Sep 1
With Punjab grappling with the worst floods in 37 years and the situation devastating, putting millions of lives at risk as families have lost homes and hard-earned crops, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday spoke to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann over the phone, discussed the situation and assured assistance.
The Home Minister assured CM Mann of full support with adequate deployment of NDRF teams and Indian Army camps for rescue and relief operations in mitigating the hardship faced by the people.
The central teams will visit early next week the flood- and landslide-affected districts of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, which have been severely affected by heavy to extremely heavy rainfall and incidents of flash flood, cloudburst and landslides, during the current monsoon season.
With 26 deaths, 2.50 lakh persons in nearly 1,300 villages across eight districts affected and standing crops on over 3 lakh acres of land destroyed, Chief Minister Mann, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, sought the release of the state’s pending dues of Rs 60,000 crore.