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On July 30 past year, a information of the elevation down Mundakkai successful Wayanad came down successful aggregate landslides, leaving villages buried and 795 families comprising 2,569 radical affected. (File photo)
Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal, presenting the authorities fund for 2025-26 Friday, announced a Rs 750 crore rehabilitation task for the survivors of the Wayanad landslides.
“Most aggravated signifier of fiscal situation faced by authorities is over,” the concern curate added successful the Kerala Assembly. The curate added that contempt the fiscal situation faced by the state, it carried retired each societal payment schemes and improvement projects.
Balagopal was presenting the 2nd Vijayan-led government’s 5th budget successful the Legislative Assembly.
Budget discussions volition instrumentality spot connected February 10, 11, and 12, portion the statement and voting connected supplementary assistance requests volition beryllium held connected February 13.
As the fund to beryllium presented connected Friday is the past afloat fund of the Left authorities up of the 2026 Assembly polls, analysts accidental that it is apt to beryllium a substance of populist measures and a roadmap for improvement of the state.
Where are the landslide survivors now?
On July 30 past year, a information of the elevation down Mundakkai successful Wayanad came down successful aggregate landslides, leaving villages buried and 795 families comprising 2,569 radical affected.
The survivors were initially staying successful alleviation camps successful Meppadi panchayat. They were past sent to unrecorded successful government-sponsored rented houses and unused authorities residential properties, from wherever they are said to person been temporarily relocated.
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Affected families are fixed assistance of Rs 18,000 each per period for 2 persons. Apart from this, Rs 6,000 for monthly rent, announced by the government, volition besides beryllium paid.
CM Pinarayi Vijayan connected funds for rehabilitation
Earlier successful January, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Rs 712.98 Crores received successful the Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund volition beryllium utilized for helping the survivors adjacent though nary assistance had travel from the Centre for rehabilitation.
The CM added that the authorities had initially demanded a sum of Rs 2,221 crore for the rehabilitation from the Centre, but arsenic per the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) report, much is expected.
He besides said a sum of Rs 15 lakh each volition beryllium fixed to the persons who privation to enactment extracurricular the projected townships.
— With PTI inputs
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