Reportedly kerala has been heavily affected by floods in the last two years and is still struggling to find funds to rebuild and rehabilitate. Meanwhile it did not feature in the list of seven states that the Centre has chosen to provide a calamity relief of Rs 5,908 crore for, from the National Disaster Relief Fund and the High Level Committee chaired by home minister amit shah has chosen seven states, including four BJP-ruled ones: Uttar Pradesh, karnataka, Tripura and Assam. Furthermore the others are maharashtra, madhya pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. 

 

Apparently kerala has not yet received a response from the Centre after repeated pleas for funds. HLC said it approved additional central assistance of Rs. 5908.56 crore to seven States from National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) Rs 616.63 crore to assam, Rs 284.93 crore to Himachal Pradesh, Rs 1869.85 crore to karnataka, Rs 1749.73 crore to madhya pradesh, Rs 956.93 crore to maharashtra, Rs 63.32 to Tripura and Rs 367.17 crore to Uttar Pradesh for floods/ landslides/cloudburst during south west monsoon 2019. Perhaps after the 2019 floods, the Disaster Management Authority of kerala, estimated a loss of Rs 2101 crore. But after the floods of 2019, the Centre has not sanctioned any major relief. Accordingly a seven member team from the Centre had come in september to visit the flood hit and landslide affected areas but there has been no update after that.

 

Moreover the decision, excluding kerala from the list of states receiving calamity-relief funds, has come under severe criticism from the state government. Kerala's Finance minister Thomas Isaac has called the decision unfortunate. Reports stated kerala had submitted a memorandum stating a loss to the tune of Rs 2109 crore. However, amit shah and his team have not allotted even a single rupee for the state, but from the news reports it is understood that Rs 5908 crore was allotted to some other states and this discrimination we have seen at the time of 2018 floods also.

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