New Delhi: A central team headed by a joint secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will go to West Bengal to assess the injury attributable to Cyclone Yaas, days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee abstained from a cyclone evaluation assembly convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi triggering an issue.
The very extreme cyclone Yaas made landfall in Odisha on May 26 and affected a big a part of the state in addition to West Bengal.
A central team led by a joint secretary of the MHA will go to West Bengal for 3 days to assess the injury attributable to the cyclone, a Home Ministry official mentioned.
The West Bengal chief minister had mentioned, as per preliminary evaluation, the cyclone had led to injury of an estimated Rs 20,000 crore to property and agriculture.
She had additionally mentioned that 18 lakh individuals have been affected by the cyclone and round 2.21 lakh hectares of crops and 71,560 hectares of horticulture space suffered injury.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed an aerial survey of the cyclone-affected space of West Bengal on May 28 and later known as a evaluation assembly on the Kalaikunda air drive station.
However, the chief minister and the then chief secretary, Alapan Bandyopadhyay, a senior IAS officer, didn’t attend it, regardless that they met the prime minister for a couple of minutes.
Following this, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the cadre controlling ministry for the IAS officers, summoned Bandyopadhyay for serving in the central authorities.
However, he didn’t come to the capital and selected to retire on May 31, as an alternative of accepting a three-month extension sanctioned to him by the state and central authorities.
Subsequently, he was appointed because the chief advisor to the state authorities by Banerjee.
On May 31 itself, the MHA slapped a show-cause discover on Bandyopadhyay below a stringent provision of the Disaster Management Act that entails imprisonment for up to two years for abstaining from the assembly presided by the prime minister at Kalaikunda.
Chief Minister Banerjee had alleged that the officer was focused by the central authorities due to a “political vendetta”.
The ruling Trinamool Congress claimed that the Centre was wreaking vengeance on the West Bengal authorities and that the discover despatched to Bandyopadhyay was an “illegal” transfer.
