Govts ‘irresponsible’ in rehabilitation of landslide survivors: Congress

Declaring that the BJP-led union authorities granted over Rs 900 crore to neighbouring Tamil Nadu as help on Friday, he mentioned they might have at the very least given an advance quantity to Kerala additionally and provides the remainder of the quantity later after the state submits an in depth estimate.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central group visited Wayanad and noticed the state of affairs there,” he mentioned.

Referring to the latest reported criticism by the excessive courtroom towards the state authorities, the Congress chief additional alleged that the state was not doing something in an acceptable method for the rehabilitation of landslide survivors.

Venugopal additionally alleged that regardless of repeated communications by the Karnataka and Telangana governments with regard to the development of homes for the landslide-hit individuals as introduced by them through the time of the tragedy, the Kerala authorities was reluctant to provide them any particulars.

Each the ruling CPI (M)- led LDF and the opposition Congress-led UDF have been demanding the BJP-led union authorities to declare the landslide calamity as a nationwide catastrophe and supply required help for the aid and rehabilitation of the survivors on the earliest.

The state just lately witnessed an intense political row following the Centre’s latest letter to the state authorities stating that underneath the present tips of SDRF and NDRF, there is no such thing as a provision to declare any calamity a ‘nationwide catastrophe”.

The catastrophe, which struck on 30 July, devastated massive components of three villages –Punchirimattam, Chooralmala, and Mundakkai–along with sections of Attamala in Wayanad. As per the federal government, the lethal catastrophe claimed 231 lives, whereas 47 individuals are nonetheless lacking.