PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti led a party delegation to Modi and presented a memorandum in which the party wants setting up of a special reconstruction group under the PM and including economists, hydrologists, flood control engineers, urban and rural development specialists and health managers.
The state could complement the effort with its own experts to make it sustainable, the memorandum said
"The economic package announced by the Centre will take its own time to be implemented but it is time to show results. People of the state are demoralised. There is a sense of insecurity. The Prime Minister himself needs to give an assurance that he and his government are going to do all to rebuild the state," she said.
Asked about the Prime Minister's response, Mehbooba said he gave an assurance that he will do whatever is possible.
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