The State government should provide ₹1,000 crore as initial funding to build new houses for those who lost their houses to floods and landslides in the Nilgiris and the government should declare the district as a disaster-hit region, DMK president M.K. Stalin demanded in a letter to Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami.
In the letter, Mr. Stalin urged the government to stop shifting the affected people from relief camps back to their houses that had been damaged in incessant rains, without proper restoration work.
“The government should immediately declare the district as a disaster-hit region and seek funds from the Centre and undertake relief and restoration work on a war-footing to enable the affected people return to their homes in a safe manner,” Mr. Stalin said.
The DMK leader insisted that the government should provide one government job for those whose family members had lost their lives in the rain, apart from providing ₹10 lakh as compensation as announced by the government.