Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna will soon meet Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi. In an informal interaction with media persons at the Secretariat in Dehradun on Thursday, the Chief Minister said that guidelines would be taken from the Union Government on providing relief to the families of the persons missing in the disaster experienced in Uttarakhand during June.
This would allow issue of certificates which would enable the families to access bank accounts and make insurance claims. In Uttarakhand till now, out of 924 missing people, monetary relief has been granted to families of 700 people. The Government has a list of 1,920 people from Uttar Pradesh and the Uttar Pradesh Government is yet to verify the list.
Bahuguna wrote a letter to UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in which Bahuguna has asked that he immediately issue directions to his officials to verify the list of missing people from his State. The CM said that the Governments of all States were being asked to complete formalities and verify lists from their States so that relief money could be handed over to the families of the missing people.
The Chief Minister added that the rehabilitation work was being carried out in disaster-hit areas at full speed. He said that the State would take help from global agencies to undertake the reconstruction work in Uttarakhand. He said that the State Government was getting help from all the ministries concerned at the Centre.
The World Bank has opened its office in Dehradun and in association with Asian Development Bank it would provide the state with $400 million. The State has also given its consent in principle to the request made by the Kedarnath temple committee and local purohits to resume ceremonial worship in the temple premises on September 11.
He added that efforts are being made to ensure complete arrangements for the same. Material for construction of steel bridges for Kedarnath and Rambada have already reached Guptkashi, added the CM.