Home Ministry team will review the damage caused by cyclone in Bengal

he Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday sent a team of three officers to West Bengal to take stock of the impact of Cyclone Yas in the affected districts. The team will be headed by a joint secretary of the home ministry and will be in the state for three days. “The team has already left for Kolkata. In the next two days, it will meet key state officials and visit the affected districts where it will meet local peopl

e. Leaving a cyclone review meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kalaikunda, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met him for 15 minutes and submitted an evaluation report, in which he outlined a Rs 20,000-crore relief package for the people of the severely affected areas. demanded. However, after surveying the damages in West Bengal and neighboring Odisha, the PM gave 1 for both these states as well as Jharkhand. Announced a relief package of Rs. 000 crores, which was also affected by the cyclone.

The development comes amid rising tensions between the Center and the Mamata Banerjee government, except for a review meeting called by former state chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay on May 28 by PM Narendra Modi. Since then, the Center has issued several orders and notices, one asking Bandopadhyay to report on central deputation a day before his retirement.

And second to ask why action should not be taken against him under the Disaster Management Act for arriving 15 minutes late to the PM’s meeting and then leaving immediately. Bandopadhyay, who opted for retirement on May 31 against the three-month extension of service approved by the Centre, has already responded to the DM Act notice sent to him. Sources said the home ministry is currently

“studying” the reply and will take a decision on it at an appropriate time. In his reply, Bandyopadhyay told the central government that he has a program to visit the cyclone-affected areas and he is following the orders of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Meanwhile, Chief Secretary Hari Krishna Dwivedi also wrote a letter to the Center explaining why Bandyopadhyay arrived 15 minutes late for the meeting and left immediately. “The ministry is studying the answer. Legal opinion will also be taken if required.

Accordingly, Action will be initiated at an appropriate time,” said an MHA official. Sources said the ministry has the option of taking administrative action — a bit difficult given that Bandopadhyay has already retired — or statutory action given that the former chief secretary has been accused of violating provisions of the Disaster Management Act. . .