PM in Leh tomorrow for review
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undertake a day-long visit on Tuesday to Leh which has been hit by cloudburst and flash floods that claimed about 200 lives and left over 400 injured.
Dr Singh will visit some of the hospitals where the injured in last Friday’s cloudburst are undergoing treatment, a PMO spokesman said on Sunday.
He will review the relief and rehabilitation measures with senior officials. The Prime Minister made a mention of the calamity in his Independence Day address assuring the people of the affected region that government will do everything possible for rehabilitating them.
Dr Singh conveyed his condolences to those who lost their family members or near and dear ones in the August 6 calamity. “In this hour of grief, the whole country stands with the people of Ladakh,” he said.
The government has declared the Leh disaster as a “calamity of severe nature”, allowing MPs to contribute Rs 50 lakhs from the MPLAD scheme towards relief in the cloudburst affected region.
“In the event of calamity of severe nature in any part of the country, an MP can recommend works upto a maximum of Rs 50 lakhs for the affected district,” the LS and the RS Secretariats have told the members.
The funds in this regard would be released by the district authority of the MP’s constituency to the district authority of Leh to get permissible works done.
The Prime Minister had earlier announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs one lakh each to the kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 each to the seriously injured from the PM’s National Relief Fund.
The mortal remains of a Danish tourist among the victim of recent cloudburst and resultant flash floods in Leh was exhumed and later handed over to representatives of that country’s mission in New Delhi who had flown into the Ladakh’s main town to collect it.
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