In a bid to assess the damage caused due to natural calamity, including incessant rain and cloudburst during rainy season-2016, a Central team comprised of six members had visited to six districts of Uttarakhand i.e. Uttarkashi, Tehri, Rudraprayag, Chamoli, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh on four days long tour.
On the concluding day of their tour, they met chief minister Harish Rawat at his residence on Saturday late evening.
They apprised the CM Rawat that during their visit they made physical inspection of the areas, interacted with affected families, districts DMs, Gram Pradhans, Public representatives and common man to assess the exact situation after disaster.
They approved the State Government’s demand of Rs 778 crore and assured that they would submit their report to union home ministry.
CM Rawat said that cloud burst incidents frequency has increased and it is surprising that such incident happened where forest cover is high so this is matter of serious concern.
Despite having limited resource state resumed immediate needs like restoration of drinking water, electricity, education and health system during disaster. Even state is taking all precautionary measures to mitigate the calamity.
To continute the char dham yatra during rainy season is one of the challenge for the state government.
During disaster-2016 we also lost several villages so there is desperate need to rehabilitate the affected people because several families are staying away from their home. He expressed hope that to rehabilitate the affected families and villages union government would relese the required budget on priority basis.
During meeting Secretary Finance and Disaster Amit Negi, additional secretary C Ravishankar, unio govenrment’s team Director Finance Gopal Prasad, Director Agriculture ministry Dr Al Waghmare, Executive Engineer Water resource Ministry Sudheer Kumar, Regional officer Road, Transport and national highway UC Katara and Assistant Director Rural Development department Rakesh Kumar were present.