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FLOODS
Central
team to finalise report on floods in 15 days
The
eight-member Central team, which inspected flood affected districts
in the State, will finalise its report in 15 days and submit it to
the Centre for further action. The team members, who returned to
Chennai on Saturday after a three-day inspection of the affected
areas, had an hour long discussion with Revenue and Housing Minister
I. Periasamy, Chief Secretary L.K. Tripathy and other senior
officials at the Secretariat.
by
The Hindu, 13/01/2008
Centre
finally wakes up to flood reality
With
the country on an average losing 1,600 lives and Rs 1,800 crore worth
of property, including crops, annually due to floods, the Centre has
proposed to pump in Rs 8,000 crore in the 11th Five- Year Plan to
assist states in the execution of flood management works. Besides,
another scheme— costing Rs 1,500 crore—to take up river
management works in border areas and critical flood management works
in the Brahmaputra and Barak river basins are also in the process of
approval, Union water resources minister Saifuddin Soz said on
Thursday while releasing the National Disaster Management Authority's
(NDMA) guidelines for "Management of Floods"
by
The Times of India, 18/01/2008
