The Centre sanctioned a pending Phailin assistance of Rs380 crore from the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) to Odisha on Monday.
Sources said the Centre too released natural disaster assistances to West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Manipur along with Odisha. While West Bengal got Rs1,104 crore, Chhattisgarh and Manipur were allocated Rs925 crore and Rs34 crore, respectively.
A total fund of Rs2,443 crore was approved by the High-level Committee (HlC) for Central assistance to States on drought, landslides and floods headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh at its meeting attended by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley among others.
The HlC examined the proposals based on the report of the Central teams which visited these States in the wake of severe natural disasters.
It may be noted that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had been demanding disbursement of the pending amount since long.