Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat, who has been admitted in AIIMS, Delhi, after receiving injuries on his neck and back because his chopper made emergency landing due to air turbulence, has paid tribute to the people who either lost their lives or missing in last year disaster on the eve of first anniversary of disaster on Sunday.
This was disclosed by Chief Minister Media in-charge Surendra Kumar by releasing a press note to the media on Sunday. In his message CM said that the disaster has damaged the infrastructure and made severe dent in tourism, which is known as backbone of State economy, but State is striving hard to restore the infrastructure.
After disaster, State Government worked hard and managed to rescue more than one lakh people from disaster affected areas. With the help of Union Government financial assistance we have made concrete plan to rebuild the State infrastructure.
Meanwhile, we have disbursed the Rs five lakh against the loss of human live; Rs two lakh for physically handicapped; Rs 30,000 for injured person and Rs two lakh for the repair of damaged house.
Even the State Government has distributed compensation against the damaged shops.To help the orphans, the State Government is bearing their all expenses. The State Government has waived off the electricity and water bills of disaster affected families.
Even the State Government postponed the repayment of EMI of cooperative banks for two years and loan of nationalised bank for one year. Also it is paying Rs 3,000 per month as rent to the family, who lost their house.
And even commercial establishment owners were told to make self-assessment of their damage and were paid compensation from Chief Minister relief fund.