The roadmap for reconstruction of disaster affected Uttarakhand has been prepared and five programme management units under the newly formed Uttarakhand State Development Authority have been formed for this.
The Government of India has sanctioned Rs7,000 crore for the reconstruction work. Regarding this, the Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar chaired a meeting with all the district magistrates of Uttarakhand and other
senior bureaucrats.
Kumar directed that the first installment of the total amount to be given to all the disaster affected for construction of a home should be deposited in their accounts by December 15.
About 2,000 affected persons have expressed their wish to construct their homes for which the Government will finance the construction in stead of providing them pre-fabricated homes which have been sought by about 102 affected persons.
The construction of these homes has
started. The affected homeless have been given assistance at Rs3,000 per month for paying house rent till February 2014.
In addition to this, for facilitating potable water supply, Rs84 crore and Rs144 crore has been facilitated for urban and rural areas
respectively. It was said in the meeting that helipads and helidromes will be built at 52 sites in the State of which 10 helipads will be made useable for commercial flights.
Weather forecast system and other facilities will be provided at all the helipads for which Rs120 crore was been sanctioned.
In the tourism sector, apart from reconstruction of tourist rest houses, a total of 38 multipurpose shelters will also be constructed.
A sum of Rs150 crore will be used on Sobla, Kaliganga, Kaligaad and other damaged power houses whereas a sum of Rs1,500 crore has been approved for construction of roads.
This sum will be used on construction of rural and other district roads apart from which Rs62 crore has been approved for construction of trek routes.
Officials were informed in the meeting that Rs1,000 crore will be spent on irrigation facility and flood protection works. Safety walls will be constructed with this fund in flood affected and water logging prone areas.
A plan has also been made to strengthen the disaster management machinery in the State. The additional chief secretary Rakesh Sharma also said that a report will be sought from all district magistrates on December 17. Apart from all the DMs, principal secretary, Potable Water, S Raju, PS Food, Radha Raturi, secretary, Panchayati Raj, Vinod Phonia, secretary, Disaster Management Bhaskaranand and other officials were also present in the meeting.