CENTRE TO DEPUTE INTER-MINISTERIAL TEAM FOR ASSESSING THE FLOOD SITUATION/DAMAGE IN ORISSA

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The Union Home Ministry has decided to depute an inter-Ministerial Central Team to assess the flood situation in Orissa and requirement of the Financial Assistance to the State. The eleven member team which will be led by the Joint Secretary, Shri K.S. Ramasubban (MHA) will also recommend whether the calamity can be considered to be of severe nature. The team will include officials from the Planning Commission, Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Finance, Health, Water Resources, Urban Development, Surface Transport, Rural Employment and Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development.

As informed by the Orissa Government 16 out of the 30 districts in the State have been severely affected in the August 2003 floods resulting in damage to public and private properties besides loss of human lives and cattle.