Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa seeks Rs 25,900 cr from Centre as flood relief

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has sought Rs 25,900 crore from the NDA Govt towards flood relief and restoration

Unprecedented rain wreaked havoc across Tamil Nadu with state capital Chennai and Puducherry witnessing large scale devastation recently.

Nearly 300 people were across the state in rain related incidents. Assocham had earlier said that the financial losses from the torrential rains and floods in Tamil Nadu might exceed Rs 15,000 crore. Automobile and IT industry were affected the most.

On November 23, 2015 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa sent a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking for central funding of Rs 8,481 crore towards flood relief and an immediate relief of Rs 2,000 crore.
Subsequently, a central government team surveyed the flood destruction.
Even after the team's visit, heavy rains - the worst in a century - battered Chennai and Kanchipuram, Cuddalore and Thiruvallur, resulting in unprecedented floods.
The rains and floods killed 347 people since October 1, and 17.64 lakh people were rescued and housed in relief centres.
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit, he announced a relief of Rs 1,000 crore in addition to the earlier Rs 940 crore.
According to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, the Rs 940 crore included Rs 133.79 crore of arrears from 2014-15 towards the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and Rs 254.62 crore towards the second instalment of SDRF for current fiscal

Earlier this week, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during his visit to Chennai asked bankers to go mission mode to extend soft loans to people in the flood-affected districts of Tamil Nadu. Jayalalithaa had then asked Jaitley to release Rs 2,000 crore for sustaining reconstruction efforts.
Jaitley held discussions with Jayalalithaa during which she apprised him of the "calamity of unprecedented magnitude" that ravaged the Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur and Cuddalore districts.