Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday said that the State had suffered a loss of more than Rs 2,522 crores due to recent incessant rains, cloudbursts and landslides in different parts and sought maximum possible relief from Government of India to mitigate the huge losses to both public and private property.
Singh was meeting the members of central team of disaster management here. He said that heavy rains coupled with cloudbursts at several places lashed various parts of the State. He said that as Kinnaur district was situated at the back of Kedarnath hills that it was the reason it suffered the maximum brunt.
He said that district administration, state Government departments and Border Road Organisation (BRO) worked at war footing to bring normalcy and restore water, electricity and roads etc. at earliest. later, Central team also met chief secretary Sudripta Roy and held discussions regarding disaster. Chief secretary told that early monsoon rains were so sudden and heavy that caused maximum damage to an extent that normal life was completely thrown out of gear at several places.