Following the filing of nomination papers by AAP staffer Rajinder Gupta for the Rajya Sabha election, Mann met with members of the media.
The Punjab government has finally delivered a letter outlining the damages incurred by the state during the recent floods, ten days after Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann met with Union Home Minister Amit Shah to request financial aid for the flood-ravaged state.
In previous sessions, the government had neglected to prepare the memorandum.
The Tribune mentioned that the memorandum was sent to the Center by email on Friday. During the interministerial central team’s visit last month, the estimates provided by the various departments ultimately matched the estimates provided to the team.
They claimed that the memorandum estimated the whole loss to be Rs 13,832 crore. Following the filing of nomination papers by AAP staffer Rajinder Gupta for the Rajya Sabha election, Mann met with members of the media. Additionally, he attested to the submission of the memorandum.
The onus is now on the Center, which ought to be generous and release cash for the state. With the release of the special girdawari report, we will begin compensating farmers whose crops were damaged by more than 33% during the floods with Rs 20,000 per acre, the chief minister announced.
Mann criticized the opposition parties for continuing their diatribe that floods in Punjab were caused by human activity and for claiming that his government was not doing enough to fortify river embankments. He claimed that it was a natural calamity, like to others that occurred in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
