Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi called him up to inquire about the damages caused by Cyclone Fengal. CM Stalin reiterated his request for a central team to be deputed to assess the damages caused by the Cyclonic storm.
Amid flooding and heavy downpours due to Cyclonic storm Fengal, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday visited the state emergency operation centre to carry out an inspection of the ongoing relief work. He appealed to the Union government to send a central team to inspect the situatio
Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari briefed the visiting central team led by Col K P Singh about the extensive damage caused in most parts of the state due to the unprecedented rainfall that occurred during the period from August 31 to September 3, said a statement from the I&PR department.
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted an Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) to assess damages caused by rainfall and floods in Gujarat. The IMCT, led by the executive director of National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), will shortly visit the flood-affected districts
Tripura government has requested that the central government send an advance Inter Ministerial Central Team to Tripura for on-site assessment of damage caused by recent floods in the state, a press release said. According to a statement by the Tripura disaster department released on Monday,
A central team visited the disaster-hit areas of Wayanad, led by Union Home Department Joint Secretary and Inter-Ministerial Central Team Leader Rajeev Kumar.
A central team from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment inspected the Amayizhanjan Canal in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday, where a sanitation worker had recently drowned while cleaning garbage.
Earlier, the Inter-Ministerial Central Team was divided into two groups and visited the flood-affected districts of Dibrugarh, Majuli, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Cachar, Karimganj & Hailakandi.
Amid the raging political war of words between the ruling TMC and the Opposition BJP over the arrest of strongman and key Sandeshkhali-accused Sheikh Shahjahan, the Centre's independent fact-finding team on Sunday visited the island in Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.
"The central government has sent around 450 teams, till now, to Bengal. They are the ones who are trying to stoke communal tensions in Bengal. We have to stand united against them," Banerjee said.
The Centre will soon decide on releasing more disaster relief funds for Tamil Nadu to help the state cope with the fallout of the recent floods, Union Minister L Murugan said on Sunday.