New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday (May 24) identified that the Centre, regardless of promising all kinds of help to fight Cyclone Yaas, has agreed to supply an advance of solely Rs 400 crore, whereas smaller states equivalent to Odisha and Andhra Pradesh are being given Rs 600 every.
Centre discriminating with funds, preserving West Bengal disadvantaged, claims Mamata Banerjee
Mamata, following a gathering of Home Minister Amit Shah with Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Bengal and the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, stated her state, which is extra densely populated, was going through ‘repeated discrimination’. “We had a gathering with Amit Shah-ji this morning. The Centre is offering greater than Rs 600-crore every to Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, and solely Rs 400 crore-something to Bengal to struggle Cyclone Yaas. This is cash being paid in advance, one thing the states are presupposed to get. This is not additional…
“At the meeting, I sought to know why Bengal, despite being a bigger state than Odisha and Andhra Pradesh — both in terms of population density and number of districts — is getting less? Why are we being deprived repeatedly?” she instructed reporters on the state secretariat.
She stated that Shah had promised to increase full cooperation, however when it got here to asserting advance funds for the states, Bengal received much less.
“Odisha and Andhra Pradesh are my sister states. I do not have any problem with what the Centre is offering to them. That said, can you compare UP with Pondicherry? It depends on the population density, history, geography and the boundaries,” she stated.
She added that that Amit Shah, on listening to her argument, said that ‘scientific views are considered’ earlier than arriving at such choices.
Deep melancholy over the East-central Bay of Bengal has intensified right into a cyclonic storm: IMD
Earlier at present, the India Meteorological Department knowledgeable that the deep melancholy over the East-central Bay of Bengal has intensified right into a cyclonic storm and it could additional intensify right into a extreme cyclonic storm throughout the subsequent 24 hours. In a tweet, IMD knowledgeable, “Deep Depression over East-central Bay of Bengal intensified into Cyclonic Storm `Yaas` and about 600 km of Port Blair. To intensify into a Severe Cyclonic Storm during next 24 hours and into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm during subsequent 24 hours.”Keeping in view the approaching cyclone, the Eastern Railway on Sunday cancelled 25 trains between May 24 and May 29.
The West Bengal authorities has opened management rooms at state secretariat Nabanna to watch the cyclone and its fallout, an official stated. The coastal districts of Purba and Paschim Medinipur, South and North 24 Parganas, together with Howrah and Hooghly will expertise mild to average rainfall in most locations with heavy to very heavy downpour at one or two locations from May 25 owing to the system, the weatherman stated.
On May 26, the unfold and depth of rain will enhance with the likelihood of extraordinarily heavy rainfall in Jhargram, Purba and Paschim Medinipur, North and South 24 Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly and Kolkata, in accordance with the MeT Department.
