The Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday despatched a crew of three officers to West Bengal to take inventory of the influence of Cyclone Yas within the affected districts. The crew will probably be headed by a joint secretary of the house ministry and will probably be within the state for 3 days.
“The crew has already left for Kolkata. In the subsequent two days, it would meet key state officers and go to the affected districts the place it would meet native folks.
Leaving a cyclone evaluation assembly chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kalaikunda, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met him for quarter-hour and submitted an analysis report, by which he outlined a Rs 20,000-crore aid bundle for the folks of the severely affected areas. demanded. Disaster
However, after surveying the damages in West Bengal and neighboring Odisha, the PM introduced a aid bundle of Rs 1,000 crore for each these states in addition to Jharkhand, which was additionally affected by the cyclone.
The growth comes amid rising tensions between the Center and the Mamata Banerjee authorities, apart from a evaluation assembly known as by former state chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay on May 28 by PM Narendra Modi.
Since then, the Center has issued a number of orders and notices, one asking Bandopadhyay to report on central deputation a day earlier than his retirement and one other asking why motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to him below the Disaster Management Act. Meet quarter-hour late after which depart instantly.
Bandopadhyay, who opted for retirement on May 31 in opposition to the three-month extension of service accredited by the Centre, has already responded to the DM Act discover despatched to him. Sources mentioned the house ministry is presently “studying” the reply and can take a call on it at an acceptable time.
In his reply, Bandyopadhyay advised the central authorities that he has a program to go to the cyclone-affected areas and he’s following the orders of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Meanwhile, Chief Secretary Hari Krishna Dwivedi additionally wrote a letter to the Center explaining why Bandyopadhyay arrived quarter-hour late for the assembly and left instantly.
“The ministry is studying the answer. Legal opinion will also be taken if required. Accordingly, action will be initiated at an appropriate time,” mentioned an MHA official.
Sources mentioned the ministry has the choice of taking administrative motion — a bit troublesome on condition that Bandopadhyay has already retired — or statutory motion on condition that the previous chief secretary has been accused of violating provisions of the Disaster Management Act. .
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
