Bengaluru: It has been two months since the floods ravaged several districts of North Karnataka and the Centre has finally released funds for flood relief. The Union Government yesterday released Rs.1,200 crore as interim flood relief to the State.
In late August, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa had submitted a memorandum to Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking Rs. 8,790.25 crore interim relief; a fourth of the total amount of Rs.35,161 crore the State had requested as 103 taluks in 22 districts were affected by the floods in which 91 people died and seven lakh people displaced.
