MHA forms teams to aid Himachal, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Punjab in flood relief

The Union home ministry on Sunday said that the central government stands shoulder to shoulder with states affected by natural calamities in mitigating the hardships faced by the people.

On the directions of Union home minister Amit Shah, the ministry has constituted interministerial central teams for Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir to assess the damage caused by heavy rainfall, floods, flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides. These teams will make on-the-spot assessment of the situation and relief works carried out by the state government.

These central teams will visit the flood and landslide-affected districts of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and J&K, severely affected by heavy to extremely heavy rainfall and incidents of flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides during this monsoon season. An interministerial team and a multi-sectoral team have already visited Himachal Pradesh.


The central teams are led by a senior officer of the level of joint secretary in the home affairs ministry and National Disaster Management Authority and will have senior officers from the ministries or departments of expenditure, agriculture and farmers welfare, Jal Shakti, power, road transport and highways, and rural development.