Stressing that all efforts will be made to disseminate financial assistance to natural disaster victims of Uttarakhand, the State Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar said that 132 people of Uttarakhand have been confirmed dead and out of that, monetary relief has been disseminated to 100 next of kin of them after they identified them.
The Government has allocated Rs five crore so far to 100 victims. He claimed that the funds would be disseminated to remaining next of kin once they identify them in the near future. He said that 328 corpses were cremated so far in the disaster hit areas by the Government. He said that handicap cases have not been recognised yet from the disaster hit areas of the State.
While briefing about the measures taken by the State Government for redressing the grievances of those residents, who face the brunt of natural calamities in a press conference held at secretariat campus in Dehradun on Thursday, Kumar said that the 823 people are still reported missing across the State and Rs 38 crore to 743 next of kin has been disseminated. He said that remaining 80 next of kin would be allocated funds at earliest.
The State Government has also allocated monetary relief to 73 injured out of 87 amounting to Rs 13 lakh so far whereas the owners of 1,275 fully damaged houses were also given monetary relief amounting to Rs 24.54 crore.
Kumar told that the owners of 475 completely damaged Kutcha homes out of 484 owners were given monetary relief and remaining nine owners of Kutcha homes from Chamoli district would be allocated funds at earliest whereas the 651 owners of partially damaged Kutcha homes have been given monetary relief and the only remaining victim from Champawat district would be given relief at earliest.
According to him, 1,661 owners of animals including bovine, pony, mule, buffalo, etc have been identified by the State Government add out of that, monetary relief to 456 owners were already disseminated by the Government whereas in case of small animals like goat, lamb, poultry, etc, 630 owners out of 10,555 were given monetary relief.
“A total of 414 tenants were also given monetary relief,” he claimed, adding that 1,381 buildings were damaged in the natural disaster.According to him, in a rough figure, 701 married male victim were reported to be died and widow would be given monetary relief. Kumar said that the Government has recognised only 13 orphans from the disaster hit areas of the State and out that, two are from Dehradun, five from Pithoragarh, one from Nainital, two from Rudraprayag and three from Chamoli district have been identified and further claimed that the Government will look after them.
Kumar said that 233 cow-shed and 186 Gharats are also partially and badly damaged and the owners would be given monetary relief in the near future.