Central team visits flood affected areas in Haryana

The Haryana government today urged the Centre to grant liberal financial assistance and raise the norms and rates of compensation for the flood affected people in the state.

This request was made by state government officials during their meeting with the four-member high powered Inter-Ministerial Central Team which visited flood affected areas in Ambala today.

The team was led by Joint Secretary, Home Affairs R P Nath, who was accompanied by the Director, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Directorate of Wheat Development, Ghaziabad, G K Chaudhary, the Director in Ministry of Power, R K Verma and Senior Regional Director in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Amarjeet Kaur.

In the meeting held at Ambala Cantonment, the central team was briefed about the damages and loss suffered in the floods.

In Ambala district, the team a visited flood affected areas of Dhulkot, Baldev Nagar, Rai Market road and Mochi Mandi Chowk, Goverdhan Nagar and Naggal, SYL and the Narwana Branch near Ishmallpur. Later the team headed for Ismailabad, Thol, Shanti Nagar, Shahbad, Parakeet, Jyotisar, Bibipur Lake of district Kurukshetra and Dhand, Keorak and Kaithal Town, Guhla-Cheeka, Sheo-Majra and Bhatian of district Kaithal.

R P Nath leader of the Central team revealed the team would submit its detailed report of the losses caused due to unprecedented floods to the Government of India. The report would be the basis for financial assistance to the people, he added.