The Union Government has declared the recent Tamil Nadu flood as a “Calamity of Severe Nature.” In a statement in Chennai, the state chief minister J.Jayalalithaa has said, the centre has made the declaration as requested by her.
She has added that the Parliament Secretariat has also issued a circular permitting the Members of Parliament to spend upto 1 crore rupees under their Local Area Development Scheme for reconstruction and rehabilitation works in the flood affected areas.
Ms Jayalalithaa has directed her party MPs to allot 1 crore rupees each for such works in the flood affected districts. The Chief Secretary has been asked to send the details of the reconstruction and rehabilitation works that are needed to be done in the flood affected districts in the state.