Shivpal Yadav reviews flood relief work in Allahabad

Uttar Pradesh PWD Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav today undertook an aerial survey of flood-hit Varanasi and Chandauli districts and reviewed relief work in Allahabad, where he warned of tough action against officials showing laxity in providing relief to those affected by inundation.
"Floods have hit 23 districts of the state and the situation is grim in eight of these. Separate budgetary allocation has been made for the flood-affected districts and Allahabad itself has been allocated Rs 7.5 crore," he said.
He also asked the Allahabad District Magistrate to take strong action against officials found guilty of dereliction of duty.
Over a dozen residential localities in the city and more than 1000 villages located near Ganga and Yamuna have been submerged for the last 10 days.

The senior SP leader distributed relief material among the victims and held a meeting with senior administrative and police officials offlood affected districts of Varanasi division. He also soughtreport from them on the issue.
Yadav, an uncle of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, gave instructions to the district officials to extend relief to the flood hit people and ensure that food and drinking water were urgently distributed among them.

He asked health officials to visit the relief camps and flood affectedareas to provide all medical help to people.
Accusing the Centre of not fully cooperating with the state, Yadav said the Modi government was not "serious" about extending assistance.

He said he has written a letter to the Centre for financial assistance but it (Centre) did not pay any attention to the matter.
The senior Cabinet ministersaid had the Centre been genuinely concerned, it would have immediately sent a team, collected the report and sanctioned the required relief fund.