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CM announces additional compensation to flood victims

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CM announces additional compensation to flood victims

Kith and kin of victims gets Rs.2.5 lakhs ex gratia

Hyderabad, August 21, 2006

The Chief Minister Dr.YS Rajasekhara Reddy on Monday said that an additional Rs.1 lakh as compensation to those killed in the recent floods in the State. The kin of the dead due to floods will receive a total compensation of Rs.2.5 lakhs.

The Chief Minister, while replying a debate in the Assembly on the floods in which 131 people were died and more than 2.12 lakh hectares of agriculture and horticulture crops were damaged. Already, the victims' kin are eligible for Rs.50,000 under the Apath Bandhu and another Rs.1 lakh from the Prime Minister's Relief Fund.

He said that it was only the second time that such a great calamity occurred in the last 53 years and the Chief Minister lauded the efforts of the Health Department for preventing outbreak of epidemics A team of officials from the National Rural Health Mission had declared that no other State had done so well in the post flood prevention of epidemics.

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Andhra Pradesh on August 21, 2006

Transport Bhavan inaugurated
Chief Minister inaugurated three storied building

Government doctors across the State to on strike
Sequel to attack on medical officer at KHG

Health Minister urges doctors to maintain restraint
Pleads to ensure that people are not to put to inconvenience

CM announces additional compensation to flood victims
Kith and kin of victims gets Rs.2.5 lakhs ex gratia

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