Calamity-wise list submitted to Centre: CM

Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has submitted a detailed calamity-wise expenditure list for the financial year 2019-20 to the Centre seeking financial assistance of Rs 2,101.88 crore from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) for the losses suffered by the state during the floods and landslides in August last year.
"The state had submitted a memorandum asking for an assistance of Rs 2,101.88 crore from NDRF in connection with the 2019 floods. But, to consider this memorandum, the Centre in its letter dated February 16, had asked to submit the calamity-wise expenditure list," chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the assembly on Wednesday.
The Centre is yet to release any emergency fund from the NDRF in the wake of the 2019 floods, he said while replying to a calling attention motion moved by CPM MLA James Mathew 'to exert pressure on the central government for release of flood relief fund to the state'.
Elaborating on the central aid received so far after the 2018 deluge, the CM said, the state had submitted a memorandum requesting for an aid of Rs 5,616 crore. But the Centre sanctioned only Rs 2,904.85 crore from NDRF, he pointed out.
In 2019-20, the Centre sanctioned only the first instalment of Rs 52.27 crore as state's share from the NDRF, Vijayan said. "The memorandum prepared by the state relief commissioner seeking assistance of Rs 2,101.88 crore was submitted to the home ministry," the CM added.