Centre Forms Inter-Ministerial Central Team To Assess Damage Caused By Floods In Gujarat

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Sunday said that an Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT), led by the Executive Director, National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) has been constituted to assess damages caused by rainfall and floods in Gujarat. IMCT will shortly visit the flood-affected districts of the State.

Home Ministry said that during 25-30 August, Gujarat was severely affected by heavy to extremely heavy rainfall due to a deep depression formed over Rajasthan and Gujarat. 

“The States of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan were also affected by heavy to very heavy rainfall. During the year, State of Himachal Pradesh has also been affected by various spells of heavy rainfall, cloudbursts and landslides. Ministry of Home Affairs is in touch with senior officers of these States, and will depute IMCT there as well, if the severe damages are reported by them. During the current Monsoon season, some other States have been affected by heavy rainfall, floods, cloudbursts, landslides etc,” MHA said. 

Centre Committed To Provide All Possible Help

“Under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, Centre government is fully committed to provide all possible help to affected states. As per the significant decision taken by the Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah, in August 2019, during this year, MHA has constituted IMCTs which have visited the flood/ landslides affected States of Assam, Kerala, Mizoram, and Tripura in advance for on the spot assessment of the damages, without waiting for their Memorandum. IMCT for the State of Nagaland has also been constituted, which will visit the affected areas of the State shortly. In the past, the IMCT used to visit the disaster affected States only after the receipt of memorandum from the State Government," an official statement released by MHA said. 

Earlier, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephonic conversation with him on Thursday morning where he enquired about the flood situation and relief measures for the affected people.

In a post on X, CM Patel said that the PM guided him on matters including restoring public life quickly. "As it has been raining heavily for the last three days across Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji once again had a telephonic conversation with me this morning to get information about the situation. He learned about the relief measures for the affected people of various districts of the state. Expressing concern over the flooding of the Vishwamitri river in Vadodara, he sought details of the relief and assistance being provided to the affected people," he said.