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Revenue Minister K. Rajan has accused the Union authorities of neglecting Kerala successful the allocation of catastrophe alleviation funds for Wayanad’s post-landslide rehabilitation, but assured that the task volition beryllium completed connected schedule.
“It is learnt that the Centre has sanctioned ₹260.65 crore arsenic assistance for landslide-hit Wayanad, but the State is yet to person the amount. Only a proposal has been made. This is simply a deliberate determination to contradict Kerala its rightful stock and reflects the Centre’s discriminatory attack towards the State,” the Minister said.
Talking to The Hindu present connected Friday, the Minister said “Of the recommended ₹260.65 crore, ₹191 crore has been earmarked for societal information and conscionable ₹37.95 crore for construction. This is not adjacent capable to statesman meaningful rebuilding. But this neglect volition not impact the project. We are moving guardant with our ain resources,” Mr. Rajan said.
From CMDRF
“We volition get ₹700 crore from the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF) and determination is simply a ₹750 crore-Budget allocation for the Wayanad package. There is an further ₹529 crore arsenic a repayable peculiar assistance indebtedness from the Centre. With these resources, we tin implicit the task without delay,” helium added.
According to the Minister, 410 houses volition beryllium completed and handed implicit to the survivors by January 2026, portion roads and the section marketplace volition beryllium acceptable by March.
Mr. Rajan criticised the Centre for refusing to state the Mundakkai and Chooralmala landslides arsenic disasters of ‘severe nature’ contempt the State’s repeated requests. “We had submitted a memorandum showing a nonaccomplishment of ₹1,202 crore, arsenic asked by the Prime Minister. But not adjacent a azygous rupee has been fixed arsenic compensation. We sought ₹2,000 crore for reconstruction and ₹260 has been recommended,” helium alleged.
‘No favourable reply’
The Minister said the State besides urged the restoration of Section 13 of the Disaster Management Act to alteration indebtedness waivers for the affected families, but “no favourable reply” had been received.
“Even aft the tribunal issued a last directive, the Centre has failed to record a response. Shockingly, the Union authorities adjacent demanded outgo for the services of the equipped forces and different agencies that came to assistance during the disaster. This repeated humiliation amounts to thing little than an insult to Kerala,” helium alleged.
“In Tripura, funds were released adjacent earlier the Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) conducted its assessment. But successful Kerala’s case, the Centre continues to delay. This intelligibly shows that due to the fact that the State authorities does not align with the Centre politically, the radical of Kerala are being betrayed,” the Minister charged. The Minister said that MPs from Kerala volition beryllium requested to rise the contented successful Parliament, and helium would erstwhile again constitute to the Prime Minister seeking justness for Wayanad.
Responding to the Opposition’s allegation that the authorities was inflating the rehabilitation outgo astatine ₹30 lakh per house, Mr. Rajan clarified, “The operation outgo is ₹22 lakh per house, including the GST. The institution has fixed a five-year warrant for the civilian operation and 7 years for equipment. If anyone tin physique specified prime houses astatine this rate, we are acceptable to springiness them the contract.”
