Our correspondent
Imphal, March 12 (EMN): Apart from providing financial assistance to the 2017 flood and landslide victims in Manipur, the Centre has released a sum of INR 130.65 crore to repair the damaged infrastructures in Manipur.
Disclosing this, Chief Minister N Biren Singh said the amount released this time is one of the biggest amounts as relief assistance in the last 15 years even though the state relief and disaster management demanded a sum of INR 435 crore as relief assistance from the Centre.
It may not fulfil 100 percent requirement but the amount released by the Centre will be distributed to the concerned parties including the disaster affected families through the concerned deputy commissioner of the state, he said.
Speaking to reporters at his official secretariat, the chief minister congratulated the state health department officials for getting a national award called ‘Express Public Health Awards 2018’ in the category of ‘Most efficiently run public health programme by a state government’ for its successful implementation of the Chief Ministergi Haksel gi Tengbang(CMHT), a three month old health scheme in Manipur, during a Health summit held in Pune recently.
About 75,000 beneficiaries and 15,000 families have been enrolled through 55 enrolment counters across the state under the CMHT which is the biggest crow puller in Manipur during every government fair and 64 patients have claimed the benefits till date, he informed.
It may be noted that, the year 2017 was a year of frequent flood and landslide in Manipur due to unseasonal and intense rainfall which led to flood across the state in hills and valley districts. Agricultural land measuring around 80,000 hectares were affected during the flood. A number of bridges, roads, schools and others were also damaged.
According to the reports, production of paddy in the state has been reduced to about 2,43,360 tonnes despite the introduction of short duration rice varieties. Last year, the state produced 6,45,600 tonnes of rice.
