India News | “Now, a Loss of About Rs 62,000 Crore Has Happened": Karnataka Dy CM G Parameshwara Seeks Release of Drought Relief
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Karnataka Deputy CM G Parameshwara said the state government will convene an all-party meeting and take a delegation to Delhi to seek drought relief from the Centre, with compensation to be calculated under NDRF guidelines.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], October 22 (ANI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara on Thursday said the state government would convene an all-party meeting and take a delegation to Delhi to seek drought relief from the Centre, stressing that the state had suffered an estimated loss of Rs 62,000 crore
"... Now we are looking to go with a drought delegation. We will call an all-party meeting here. Now Dasara is over. Next, administrative decisions have to be taken. We will call them, inform them. From the state's point of view, we who are administering, we have to go. We have to ask them to give us relief. Now, a loss of about Rs 62,000 crore has happened. They are calculating how much to ask for. There are their guidelines, NDRF. We cannot ask for the entire Rs 62,000 crore loss. They have made guidelines. Based on NDRF, we will calculate and go and ask them, " he told reporters
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Meanwhile, Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday met Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav in the national capital to discuss several environmental, forest, and wildlife clearances concerning key state projects, including the Mekedatu project and recommendations of the Kasturirangan report.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Shivakumar described the discussion as constructive, noting that the Union Minister had agreed to initiate formal inter-ministerial deliberations to help expedite pending approvals.
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"I visited Delhi and have just met Bhupender Yadav. I have discussed this Kasturirangan report and a lot of projects and forest and wildlife clearances connected to the Mekedatu issue and the environmental impact issues connected to the coast; we wanted to come out with a new policy," Shivakumar said.
"He has agreed positively on the coastal, the storage, and the Mekedatu issue; there has to be some clearance, and he also has agreed that the forest minister and the water resources minister will jointly have a meeting on this," he added. (ANI)
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