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Centre approves Rs 4,432 crore to Odisha, K’taka, HP for damage by natural calamities

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The government has approved additional central assistance of Rs 4,432.10 crore to Karnataka, Odisha, and Himachal Pradesh from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) as the trio states have faced huge damage by the natural calamities.

An official release from the Home Ministry said on Tuesday that a high-level committee chaired by Home Minister Amit Shah has approved the central assistance to the three states.

The statement added it was held to consider additional central assistance to three states, which were affected by drought (rabi) of 2018-19, avalanches, hailstorms, landslides and cyclone ‘Fani’ during 2019. The meeting was held on Monday.

“The HLC approved additional central assistance of Rs 4,432.10 crore to three states from the NDRF) — Rs 3,338.22 crore to Odisha for Cyclone Fani, Rs 1,029.39 crore to Karnataka for drought and Rs 64.49 crore to Himachal Pradesh for avalanches and hailstorm,” it said.

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The meeting was also attended by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and other senior officials.

This additional assistance is besides the funds released by the Centre to the states under the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF).

The Centre had released Rs 9,658 crore to all states in 2018-19 and it has released Rs 6,104 crore to 24 states from SDRF so far in this fiscal year.

(With ANI inputs)

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