NEW DELHI, Dec 22 – The modern-day pied pipers in Mizoram and Manipur have earned a cool Rs 78.97 crore, killing; you guessed right, rodents. Yes, you read it right, that is the amount Government of India sanctioned to Mizoram and Manipur, two of the worst-affected States, to fight the menace of rodent.
The amount is in addition to Rs 85 crore sanctioned by New Delhi under a special action plan to tackle bamboo flowering.
The State Governments of Mizoram in the month of May 2007 and February this year petitioned the Central Government seeking assistance from National Calamity Relief Fund. Manipur this March followed suit with a demand for Rs 50. 02 crore.
The high level committee, set up for the purpose vetted the memorandums and slashed down the demand drastically. Mizoram wanted a whopping Rs 591.63 crore in addition to Rs 43.92 crore it had sought a year earlier.
Mizoram was given Rs 12.93 crore in the first instalment. The next year Rs 49.37 crore was sanctioned.
The high level committee after considering all the pros and cons gave Mizoram Rs 62.30 crore in two tranches. Manipur was allocated Rs 16.67 crore as against the demand of Rs 50.02 crore.
The Government of India was not found wanting and sanctioned generously to the North Eastern States to tackle the calamity arising out of flowering of bamboos. The funds under a specially drawn Action Plan was sanctioned for undertaking survey and mapping, resources extraction and management, resources utilisation, regeneration, development of infrastructure, rodent control, and precautionary measures to control famine, fire hazard, control and awareness campaign.
The Centre released Rs 79.49 crore of the Rs 85 crore sanctioned under Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) to tackle bamboo flowering.
The National Bamboo Mission does not deal directly, with the problem of bamboo flowering, Ministry of Environment and Forest is taking action to fight the menace, said Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar in a Lok Sabha reply.
The Ministry of Environment and Forest has launched an Action Plan called Gregarious Flowering of Muli Bamboos’ in the North Eastern States in 2005-2006.
The highest allocation of Rs 23.60 crore has gone to Mizoram, followed by Tripura Rs 21.20, Manipur ( Rs 9.90 crore), Nagaland (Rs 8 crore) and Assam (Rs 7.4 crore), Pawar said.
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- The Assam Tribune
The amount is in addition to Rs 85 crore sanctioned by New Delhi under a special action plan to tackle bamboo flowering.
The State Governments of Mizoram in the month of May 2007 and February this year petitioned the Central Government seeking assistance from National Calamity Relief Fund. Manipur this March followed suit with a demand for Rs 50. 02 crore.
The high level committee, set up for the purpose vetted the memorandums and slashed down the demand drastically. Mizoram wanted a whopping Rs 591.63 crore in addition to Rs 43.92 crore it had sought a year earlier.
Mizoram was given Rs 12.93 crore in the first instalment. The next year Rs 49.37 crore was sanctioned.
The high level committee after considering all the pros and cons gave Mizoram Rs 62.30 crore in two tranches. Manipur was allocated Rs 16.67 crore as against the demand of Rs 50.02 crore.
The Government of India was not found wanting and sanctioned generously to the North Eastern States to tackle the calamity arising out of flowering of bamboos. The funds under a specially drawn Action Plan was sanctioned for undertaking survey and mapping, resources extraction and management, resources utilisation, regeneration, development of infrastructure, rodent control, and precautionary measures to control famine, fire hazard, control and awareness campaign.
The Centre released Rs 79.49 crore of the Rs 85 crore sanctioned under Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) to tackle bamboo flowering.
The National Bamboo Mission does not deal directly, with the problem of bamboo flowering, Ministry of Environment and Forest is taking action to fight the menace, said Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar in a Lok Sabha reply.
The Ministry of Environment and Forest has launched an Action Plan called Gregarious Flowering of Muli Bamboos’ in the North Eastern States in 2005-2006.
The highest allocation of Rs 23.60 crore has gone to Mizoram, followed by Tripura Rs 21.20, Manipur ( Rs 9.90 crore), Nagaland (Rs 8 crore) and Assam (Rs 7.4 crore), Pawar said.
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