West Bengal/Odisha: Central team on Monday visited several parts of Cyclone Yaas affected areas in both West Bengal and Odisha.
A seven member central team visited Patharpratima and Gosaba area in South 24 Parganas and took stock of areas and even spoke to the affected people.
According to sources, the comments of the affected people will be included in the report that will be sent to Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
“The inter-ministerial central team which reached West Bengal on Sunday, visited areas of South 24 parganas on Monday. While one team took an aerial view of the place, the second team spoke to the people. On Tuesday, the team is likely to visit East Midnapore and will send the review after reaching back to the national capital based on which the central will release the grant,” mentioned the sources.
Notably, several thousand people of Patharpratima and Gosaba are still living in the relief centre as their houses have been washed away due to cyclone. Even saline water has entered the agricultural lands that led to damage of several crops.
Incidentally, more than 20 million people in West Bengal were affected by cyclone Yaas, which also damaged 30 million houses, the Trinamool Congress government conveyed to the central team before they left to visit the spot.
Meanwhile, a team, led by Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Sunil Kumar Barnwal arrived at Balasore on Monday and had a meeting with district collector K Sudarshan Chakravarthy and other senior district officials before visiting Chandipur and Soro.
According to sources, the team will also visit Kendrapara and Mayurbhanj districts on Tuesday.
Ahead of the visit to the cyclone affected areas in Odisha, the team had a meeting with the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Pradeep Jena at Bhubaneswar.
It can be recalled that on May 28 Prime Minister Narendra Modi had held a review meeting with both Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Pattanaik and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. However, due to a preoccupied schedule Mamata couldn’t attend the meeting.
