PM Modi announces Rs 500 crore relief Package for flood hit Bihar

TIL Desk/National/Patna/ PM Modi on Saturday announced Rs 500-crore relief package for flood-hit Bihar for flood ravaged Bihar and conducted an aerial survey of the affected districts with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The aerial survey took nearly 50 minutes as the leaders took stock of the situation, An official of the Bihar disaster management department as saying.

Modi and Nitish, along with Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, conducted a survey of Kishanganj, Purnea, Katihar and Araria districts of Seemanchal region, which has been the worst-hit.

Modi made the announcement after an aerial survey of flood affected Araria, Purnia, Katihar and Kishanganj districts in northeast Bihar and review of relief and rehabilitation schemes with chief minister Nitish Kumar and Bihar government officers at Purnia, 368 km east of Patna.

The Prime Minister hinted that the relief amount would be increased after assessment of the damage later in New Delhi. He said a Central government team would soon visit the state to assess the damage. Modi also directed insurance companies to send their supervisors to the affected areas for assessment of the crop insurance claims of flood-hit farmers.