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Wednesday, Jul 12, 2006

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State submits plan for Central assistance

Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Government has submitted a Rs.991.50-crore project for long-term rehabilitation and reconstruction in flood-affected areas to the Centre for assistance.

Revenue Minister K.P. Rajendran told presspersons here on Tuesday that the project proposed, among other things, the reconstruction of damaged infrastructure and resettlement of people living in disaster-prone areas of the State, including areas prone to sea erosion and landslips. The project was to be carried out in five years.

The Minister said the newly formed Disaster Management Authority headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would evaluate the project for assistance. Consultations with Members of Parliament representing Kerala were planned next month in Delhi in a bid to get the project cleared.

He said the State would frame rules on disaster management in a few months. A one-day workshop will be held here on July 27 as a prelude to that. Members of the National Disaster Management Authority and faculty members from the National Institute of Disaster Management would lead the workshop. Separate workshops were planned for urban and rural areas at the local levels.

The panchayat presidents and others would attend these workshops, to be held in Thrissur on August 29 and 31.

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