29 families to be rehabilitated from mudslip-hit Koombanpara

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A high-level gathering  called by Water Resources Minister Roshy Augustine astatine  the Idukki collectorate connected  Friday.

A high-level gathering called by Water Resources Minister Roshy Augustine astatine the Idukki collectorate connected Friday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

A high-level gathering called by Water Resources Minister Roshy Augustine astatine the Idukki collectorate connected Friday decided to rehabilitate 29 families from the mudslip-hit country astatine Koombanpara successful Adimaly. According to officials, during the meeting, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officials informed them that security sum is applicable for threat-posing homes connected the Kochi-Dhanushkodi National Highway.

The NHAI should put the security claim, and the territory medication volition rehabilitate the 29 families with the enactment of the security claim. “If the security assertion magnitude is less, the NHAI should supply the equilibrium amount,” said the Minister.

According to officials, until the rehabilitation, the families volition supply rented homes. The NHAI volition carnivore the location rent amount. Financial assistance volition beryllium provided to those surviving successful alleviation camps. In addition, the NHAI volition supply fiscal assistance to the girl of Biju, who was killed successful the mudslip.

It was decided that the security wealth should beryllium utilized lone for purchasing onshore for the operation of homes. A associated statement volition beryllium signed with the beneficiary, the section panchayat, the village, and NHAI.

Rehabilitation

The peculiar squad recommended that 29 families are eligible for the rehabilitation package, and the panchayat volition instrumentality steps to find homes and onshore for the affected families. The families tin instrumentality to their homes from the alleviation campy aft the peculiar squad study recommends that determination is nary menace to them. The NHAI volition conception a extortion partition wherever the mudslip occurred.

A study submitted by the peculiar squad stated that unscientific road-widening works connected the National Highway resulted successful the mudslip.

District Collector Dineshan Cheruvatt, Idukki MP Dean Kuriakose, Udumbanchola MLA M.M. Mani, Devikulam MLA A. Raja, Devikulam Sub-Collector V.M. Arya, Idukki Sub-Collector Anoop Garg and District Police Chief K.M. Sabu Mathew, among others, attended the meeting.

The landslip that occurred adjacent Adimaly connected the road to Munnar connected the nighttime of October 25 claimed the beingness of a Laksham Veedu Colony resident, Biju, and earnestly injured his wife, Sandhya. On October 28, the doctors amputated Sandhya’s near limb owed to terrible injuries.

Published - October 31, 2025 07:31 p.m. IST

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