By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has emphasised on the need to expedite the rehabilitation of the ethnic violence affected people as he discussed a gamut of issues pertaining to relief and rehabilitation in the BTAD areas with BTC chief Hagrama Mohilary, Group of Ministers and senior officials at Assam Legislative Assembly office chamber on Thursday.
Minister for Panchayat & Rural Development, Rakibul Hussain said his department has allocated 12,500 IAY houses at Rs 75,000 per unit to the violence-hit BPL families with identity cards. “The process for allotting IAY houses to the non-BPL families without identity cards would begin once the State Government receives a detailed proposal from the BTC administration,” Hussain said, adding that the proposal would be forwarded to the Planning Commission for seeking approval.
Of the Rs 100 crore received from central government as special package for relief and rehabilitation of violence-hit families, Rs 65 crore has been spent on IAY houses to the BPL families with identity cards.
It may be mentioned here that the central government has offered a special aid of Rs 300 crore which comprises special assistance of Rs 100 crore for relief and rehabilitation, Rs 100 crore under special plan assistance for development works in the affected areas and Rs 100 crore under the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) scheme for re-building damaged houses.
The CM instructed the officials of the Revenue Department to provide ration for another two-and-a-half-months to the affected families following a plea from the BTC Chief.
The meeting was attended, among others, by the Group of Ministers comprising Minister for Revenue & Disaster Management, Prithivi Majhi, Minister for Panchayat & Rural Development, Rakibul Hussain, Minister for Social Welfare, Akon Bora, Minister for Tourism, Chandan Brahma, Chief Secretary, Jitesh Khosla, Additional Chief Secretary, Panchayat & Rural Development, JB Singh, Principal Secretary, Home & Political, Sailesh, Principal Secretary to CM, Jishnu Barua, Commissioner & Secretary, Finance, Pawan Kumar Borthakur, Secretary, Home, GD Tripathi and Commissioner, Panchayat & Rural Development, KK Dwivedi .
Later, a separate meeting was also held by Chief Minister Gogoi with BTC Chief and senior officials of Home and Political Department on the law and order situation in BTAD areas.
The state government sought the cooperation of the BTC administration in tackling the law and order situation and in restoring complete normalcy in BTAD areas. The meeting was attended, among others, by DGP, Jayanto Narayan Choudhury, ADGP (SB) Pallab Bhattacharyya and ADGP, AP Rout.