The State Administrative Council (SAC), which met under the chairmanship of Governor NN Vohra here today, approved financial assistance under the Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP) —- 2015 for providing relief to people whose houses were damaged in the floods in September 2014.
The relief under the Prime Minister’s package shall be as per the scales decided by the government.
Each damaged house will get total relief/financial assistance out of the State Disaster Response Fund, Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund and the Prime Minister’s Development Plan — 2015.
The SAC also directed that the list of damaged houses be reconciled by the Deputy Commissioners with the data of the damaged houses available with the NDMA, New Delhi, which has transferred the financial assistance out of the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund into the bank accounts of the affected through direct benefit transfer.
The SAC also directed that the relief in case of damaged houses under the PMDP-2015 be transferred electronically by way of direct transfer into the official bank accounts of the respective Deputy Commissioners for further disbursement to the affected.
Relief under PM’s package okayed for flood-affected
