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The Centre should beryllium acceptable to extremity the injustice and neglect towards Kerala and supply the indispensable assistance to the Mundakkai-Chooralmala catastrophe victims successful Wayanad, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.
In a connection successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Saturday (October 4, 2025), the Chief Minister said the catastrophe occurred successful Meppadi connected July 30, 2024. Within 10 days, the Central squad came for a catastrophe assessment, and the precise adjacent day, the Prime Minister visited the catastrophe site.
After conducting a preliminary assessment, Kerala had requested an exigency assistance of ₹1,202.12 crore. It has been a twelvemonth and 2 months since the incident, and nary exigency assistance has been granted by the Centre. Despite the petition to constitute disconnected the loans of the catastrophe victims, the Centre has not taken immoderate steps truthful far, helium said.
In addition, Section 13 of the Disaster Management Act related to alleviation successful indebtedness repayment for victims of catastrophe was removed.
The Central authorities precocious informed the High Court successful penning that the enactment does not let the indebtedness waiver of the victims of the Mundakkai-Chooralmala disaster, citing this amendment. Kerala submitted its archetypal memorandum connected August 17, 2024, instantly aft the disaster. In summation to the memorandum, a post-disaster needs appraisal (PDNA) was conducted, and a elaborate study was submitted connected November 13, 2024. Section 13 of the Disaster Management Act was successful unit during some occasions, said Mr. Vijayan.
It was lone connected March 29 this twelvemonth that the Central authorities issued a gazette notification removing this Section. This amendment does not person immoderate retrospective effect. Yet, the Centre adopted a cruel and merciless attack towards the victims that it could not supply assistance to them. The Centre took adjacent 5 months to state the catastrophe a “disaster of terrible nature”. Due to this, the prospects of availing planetary assistance were diminished, helium said.
“Only ₹260.56 crore was sanctioned the different time against the request of ₹2,221.03 crore for the reconstruction and rehabilitation. This magnitude is not adjacent one-eighth of our existent requirement,” the Chief Minister said.
The neglect towards Kerala has invited wide disapproval against the Centre from each sections of the radical successful the State. Considering this, the Centre should not hold immoderate further successful protecting the rights of the affected victims and supporting them with the indispensable assistance, helium said.
