Gujarat Chief Minister Vijaybhai Rupani began distribution of cash assistance in total amounting to the tune of Rs 630 crore to 2.65 lakh farmers whose crops and farming lands were washed away in recent devastated, flash flood in Banaskantha district.
Speaking at the function held in Diyodar in North Gujarat, the Chief Minister said that the State Government was determined to rebuild the ravaged Banaskantha district as the best district with developing of the best facilities.
On the occasion, with a view to rehabilitate ten flood affected villages, which have been completely ravaged due to change of streams causing flash floods in the rivers between 2015 and 2017 here, Rupani also awarded the land-certificates to the sarpanches of these villages.
He said the Government will leave no-stone unturned to rebuilt better infrastructure facilities such as schools, medical centers, roads, electricity and others at these villages.
The Chief Minister said that the six crore people of Gujarat firmly stood behind the flood victims in this difficult time by offering them whole hearted assistances. So far, cash doles and house-hold utensils were distributed to the 11 lakh people.
The State Government is determined to complete the survey of washed away-lands and payment of crop insurances to the flood victims at the earliest, Rupani added.