{"id":323433,"date":"2020-05-22T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T08:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323433"},"modified":"2020-05-22T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T08:20:24","slug":"pm-modi-announces-rs-1000-crore-immediate-relief-for-west-bengal-after-aerial-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-announces-rs-1000-crore-immediate-relief-for-west-bengal-after-aerial-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi announces Rs 1,000 crore immediate relief for West Bengal after aerial survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-323434 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/modi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/modi.jpg 726w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/modi-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/modi-696x421.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/modi-695x420.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced an interim financial assistance of Rs 1,000 crore for West Bengal to aid the relief and rehabilitation efforts after conducting an aerial survey of the areas affected by Cyclone Amphan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was accompanied by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi said, \u201cUnion Government will deploy an Inter-Ministerial Team to visit the state to assess the extent of damage in the State, based on which further assistance will be given,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi expressed his complete solidarity with the people of West Bengal and expressed deep sorrow to the families who have lost their kin during the calamity.\u00a0 He announced an ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs. 50,000 to the seriously injured in the cyclone in the State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister assured the people of the State that the Union Government would closely work with the State Government at this difficult time, extend all possible assistance for restoration and rebuilding of the infrastructure in the affected areas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This was the second visit of the Prime Minister to the state of West Bengal this year, which is the only state apart from Uttar Pradesh, where he has had multiple visits this year. Prime Minister had earlier <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced an interim financial assistance of Rs 1,000 crore for West Bengal to aid the relief and rehabilitation efforts after conducting an aerial survey of the areas affected by Cyclone Amphan. He was accompanied by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. PM Modi said, \u201cUnion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[13034,316,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323437,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323433\/revisions\/323437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}