Taking cognizance of media reports and opposition allegations that disaster affected people are not getting compensation despite large claims by the State Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, State Government convened a meeting with officials to plug the lacuna in Government notification.
This was disclosed by the Cabinet Minister Harak Singh Rawat while interacting with the media persons in secretariat on Monday. Rawat reiterated that State Government is doing everything to ensure overall development of the State.
It has been noticed that large number of business community, who were on rent and had made large stock in view of Char Dham Yatra, have lost their goods in June disaster. Government had issued the notification but it was not clear so district administration could not disburse compensation to them so they convened a meeting with ministers and MlAs to sort out the grievances.
In which they decided that the person who have lost their goods worth upto Rs two lakh will be given equal amount as per their loss, if they lost goods in between Rs two lakh to Rs ten lakh then they would get compensation upto 30 percent of their total loss and if they lost goods worth of more than Rs ten lakh then they would get compensation upto 20 percent of their total loss.
Rawat also said that to provide succour to the disaster victim especially who lost their accommodation State Government has decided to give them Rs 3000 per month rent upto next two years. To provide them accomdoation State Govenrment is also giving Rs five lakh cash compensation against the property loss.
“Now we have also decided to ease the norms of Indira Awas Yojna (IAY) so that they would also get Rs 75,000, which is being given by the Union Government under IAY. With this, disaster victims would get Rs 7.75 lakh including Rs 75000 of IAY.” As far as land is concerned then we had meeting with Rudraprayag DM so that they would come to know about the Government’s intention.
Besides it we have also released Rs 13 crore to the Rudraprayag DM so that he can disburse the money among the needy person. As per the rough estimate around 2500 businessmen, who were running their business on rented accommodation in kedar vally. In which 800 were in between Rambara to Kedarnath.