Central team
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 23 2019:
An inter-Ministerial team of the Central Government would soon visit the State to inspect drought affected areas.
Notably, the State Government officially declared the State as drought-hit on August 31 .
Following the official declaration, Relief and Disaster Management Department submitted a memorandum to the Ministry of Home Affairs, informed a source.
According to the source, the State Government has been already intimated by the Central Government that an inter-ministerial team would soon visit the State to make an assessment of the drought affected areas.
Till July this year, the State received less than 50 per cent of the normal volume of annual rainfall and as a result, paddy cultivation failed in around one lakh hectares.
On the other hand, Agriculture Department has already sent a proposal of Rs 19 crore to the Planning Department for cultivating alternative crops in areas where paddy cultivation could not be done.