07-05-2005, 10:50 AM
<b>Sonia slams Modi govt over Guj flood relief</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Vadodara/ahmedabad, July 4: On a day-long tour of flood-hit Gujarat, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday said there were complaints about inadequate relief and asked the state government to pay cash doles for 15 days and speed up rehabilitation in affected areas.
âI have been receiving complaints that cash doles are not being given. The state government should ensure that money reaches the people,â Gandhi said as she undertook a whirlwind tour of Vadodara, the worst hit in the recent rain-induced floods.
Visiting relief camps and slum areas along the swollen Vishwamitri river, the UPA chairperson stopped at several places to interact with the affected people.
A major portion of the rehabilitation package would be spent on rebuilding houses of slum dwellers that were washed way in the floods, she said.
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Gandhi and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee jointly undertook an aerial survey of worst-hit Vadodara, Anand, Kheda and Ahmedabad districts to have a first-hand account of the flood situation in the state.
Expressing his dissatisfaction with relief and rehabilitation work in the state, he said in Ahmedabad that âhelp has not reached many parts of the state. Even the assessment of damage is not done as several areas are still cut-off.â
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Who the hell she is? What is her authority to use central resources and ask state to pay 15 days dole? <!--emo&:thumbdown--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Vadodara/ahmedabad, July 4: On a day-long tour of flood-hit Gujarat, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday said there were complaints about inadequate relief and asked the state government to pay cash doles for 15 days and speed up rehabilitation in affected areas.
âI have been receiving complaints that cash doles are not being given. The state government should ensure that money reaches the people,â Gandhi said as she undertook a whirlwind tour of Vadodara, the worst hit in the recent rain-induced floods.
Visiting relief camps and slum areas along the swollen Vishwamitri river, the UPA chairperson stopped at several places to interact with the affected people.
A major portion of the rehabilitation package would be spent on rebuilding houses of slum dwellers that were washed way in the floods, she said.
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Gandhi and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee jointly undertook an aerial survey of worst-hit Vadodara, Anand, Kheda and Ahmedabad districts to have a first-hand account of the flood situation in the state.
Expressing his dissatisfaction with relief and rehabilitation work in the state, he said in Ahmedabad that âhelp has not reached many parts of the state. Even the assessment of damage is not done as several areas are still cut-off.â
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Who the hell she is? What is her authority to use central resources and ask state to pay 15 days dole? <!--emo&:thumbdown--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='thumbsdownsmileyanim.gif' /><!--endemo-->