After the devastating floods in Jammu & Kashmir that claimed several lives and rendered thousands homeless, the Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel has announced an assistance of Rs 5 crore for relief to the affected region.

At a high-level meeting with the state officials, Patel announced to donate Rs 5-crore to the Chief Minister Relief Fund of Jammu & Kashmir state on the humanitarian ground and provide assistance to the affected people in the hour of crisis.

The state administration has also decided to supply 100,000 food packets for the next five days for people stranded in the flood-affected regions of Jammu & Kashmir.

“The state administration is coordinating with Prime Minister’s Office and Union Cabinet Secretary to air-lift and deliver those packets daily in Jammu & Kashmir,” stated Patel in a statement issued today.

Heavy rainfall in Gujarat

The chief minister also reviewed the overall situation emerging due to heavy rainfall in the state during last 24 hours.

The state has received 8 per cent of the season’s total rainfall in the past 24 hours. According to latest data, the state has received 87 per cent of the total rainfall for the current year.

The Chief Minister reviewed the situation of health, road-building, water levels in reservoirs and quantity of waters being released from them, electricity and civil supply of foods in the state.

Gujarat’s Health and Road-building Minister Nitinbhai Patel and Chief Secretary Varesh Sinha and other senior secretaries had also attended the review meeting.

State meteorology department informed that north-west regions of the State had received very heavy rainfall due to heavy pressure generated by clouds and winds.

State administration has been put on alert to tackle any emergency situation emerging out of the current heavy rainfall and also ordered to all the district-in-charge secretaries to keep a constant touch with the district administrations to co-ordinate all the necessary works.

Also, the army has been alerted and rescue boats are also made available to meet any marooned situations emerging out at flood-hit the state’s cultural capital city of Vadodara. Beside these, the 3 teams of NDRF were also put on stand-by, the meeting was briefed.

Patel had instructed the administration to restore the power supply at all 125 flood affected villages.

“Beside these, 240 teams have been pressed into service to prevent out-break of any epidemic and to supply antibiotic medicines and to maintain cleanliness in the rain affected areas. As many as nine state highways and 27 panchayati roads have been damaged by the heavy rainfall. The restoration works on these roads would be initiated as soon as the rain stops,” a state government statement mentioned.

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