With Himachal Pradesh severely hit by frequent cloud bursts and flash floods for the past some years leading to vast devastation, deaths and huge financial losses, the Union Home Ministry has decided to constitute a central team to find the reasons behind the cause of such disasters.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has ordered the formation of a multi-sect oral central team to look into the reasons behind the alarming frequency with which natural disasters have been occurring in the state over the past few years.
Experts from various departments i.e. from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Rookie, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, and Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT), Indore, will jointly carry a study in Himachal Pradesh.
One hundred sixteen lives were lost in Himachal Pradesh recently due to flash floods due cloud bursts, a financial loss of nearly Rs 1230 crores has been estimated, and hundreds of houses were destroyed, besides other losses. In Mandi district alone a loss of approximately Rs 708 crores has been assessed.
An inter-ministerial central team recently visited the disaster affected areas to make on the spot assessment of losses and file a report the Central government.
HP CM Chief Minister Sukhvidner Singh Sukhu had recently met Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi to apprise him about the devastation caused in the state.
After the flash floods in the state, the state government had sent a report to the Central government about financial losses of nearly Rs 10000 crores.
The Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister has been seeking a special relief package for the state to carry out rehabilitation of affected families and to rebuild the infrastructure destroyed in the floods.
