Rs 400-crore for flood-hit Maharashtra

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Mumbai: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced an assistance of Rs 400 crore for relief operations in flood-hit Maharashtra after assessing the situation in the affected areas on Friday.

Singh visited Andhra Pradesh after reviewing the situation in Nanded district of Maharshtra and interacted with the flood-affected people at the relief centres accompanied by Maharshtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.

The Prime Minister also announced that the government would soon send a Central team to assess the damage caused by the floods in the State.

From Maharashtra, PM is expected to move on to Surat in Gujarat. The PM will take an arial view of the areas as almost 90 per cent of Surat is submerged under water.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Governor Nawal Kishore Sharma, are also expected to reach Vadodara.

The Prime Minister is scheduled to visit relief camps in Surat and is also likely to interact with state officials on the relief and rehabilitation work being carried out.

Hundreds of villages and some towns, mainly in the south and west of the country, have been submerged, leaving hundreds of thousands of people marooned, some stranded on rooftops and on trees for days without much food and water.

In Gujarat alone about 25 people have died in the floods while in Andhra Pradesh, 1.5 million people have been left homeless with about 120 people reported to have died so far.