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The Punjab Assembly connected Monday (September 28, 2025) unanimously passed a solution condemning the “lack of effect and the failure” of the BJP-led Centre to authorisation a peculiar fiscal bundle for the flood-hit Punjab.
The solution besides condemned the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for “not responding” to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s repeated petition for a meeting, thereby “insulting” the radical of the state, and preventing the authorities from making a due and broad practice of the afloat standard of the disaster.
The 2 BJP members were not contiguous successful the House erstwhile the solution was passed connected Monday (September 28, 2025).
The resolution, which was moved connected Friday (September 26, 2025), was passed aft the completion of the treatment connected ‘rehabilitation of Punjab’.
The two-day peculiar league of the Punjab Assembly began connected Friday (September 26, 2025).
Winding up the treatment successful the House connected the concluding time of the session, Chief Minister Mann said a compensation of ₹20,000 per acre for 75 to 100% harm of crops owed to the caller floods volition beryllium given. He said ₹10,000 per acre volition beryllium fixed for 33 to 75 and 26 to 33% of harvest damage.
He besides said that a compensation of ₹1.20 lakh volition beryllium fixed for implicit harm of houses.
CM Mann said a peculiar ‘girdawari’ for appraisal of losses is underway and added that flood-hit families volition commencement getting compensation earlier the Diwali festival. Farmers volition beryllium fixed ₹7,200 per acre for extracting sand, which has accumulated pursuing the floods, from their fields.
A sum of ₹47,500 per hectare volition beryllium fixed to farmers whose workplace onshore was washed distant by rivers.
He slammed the Centre for allegedly not giving him clip to conscionable Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making practice of the disaster. He besides took a swipe astatine the Centre, saying the PM gave clip to conscionable the Punjab governor.
CM Mann, however, said helium has been fixed clip to conscionable Home Minister Amit Shah connected Tuesday (September 30, 2025).
During his caller sojourn to Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced fiscal assistance of ₹1,600 crore for the flood-hit authorities successful summation to the ₹12,000 crore already successful the state’s kitty.
As per the resolution, Punjab has been ravaged by catastrophic floods, wide regarded arsenic the worst and astir destructive deluge since the 1988 floods which historically impacted much than 34 lakh people.
The existent catastrophe has surpassed erstwhile large floods successful autarkic India, specified arsenic those successful 1955 and 1978, successful presumption of sheer standard and devastation, causing nonaccomplishment to much than 20 lakh radical successful galore ways, destroying crops connected astir 5 lakh acres, galore nonaccomplishment to livestock, and irreparable harm to some backstage and nationalist infrastructure, work the resolution.
The Chief Minister of Punjab, aft a broad assessment, formally demanded a peculiar and important fiscal alleviation bundle of astatine slightest ₹20,000 crore from the Union government, led by the BJP, to conscionable this unprecedented crisis, it further stated.
The solution further said that adjacent a portion of the announced bundle of ₹1,600 crore has not yet been transferred to the authorities treasury.
“This House categorically condemns the deficiency of effect and the nonaccomplishment of the BJP-led Union authorities to authorisation a peculiar fiscal bundle commensurate with the standard of the worst floods faced by Punjab successful decades,” the solution said.
“...records its beardown protestation against the BJP led Union government’s apathy that has resulted successful the non-disbursement of the announced token funds, thereby critically crippling the velocity of the authorities government’s ongoing alleviation and rehabilitation operations,” said the resolution.
Punjab faced 1 of its worst flood disasters successful decades, chiefly owed to the swollen Sutlej, Beas, and Ravi rivers, on with seasonal rivulets resulting from dense rainfall successful their catchment areas successful Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Furthermore, dense rains successful Punjab exacerbated the flooding situation.
