Ker Govt announces flood relief package;Rs 10 K immediate aid

The Kerala government on Wednesday announced a flood relief package with an immediate financial aid of up to Rs 10,000 each for all calamity-hit families which had suffered losses in the torrential rains.

A sum of Rs 4 lakh would be given to those whose houses had been fully damaged or had become uninhabitable and Rs 10 lakh to those who had lost their houses as well as land in the rain fury and landslides, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told reporters after the weekly cabinet meeting.

On the basis of the intensity of the catastrophe and gravity of the losses,a notification would be issued soon declaring the respective villages as "calamity-hit."