Govt mulls to bring comprehensive relief policy in Punjab

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Govt mulls to bring comprehensive relief policy in Punjab

Wednesday, 10 July 2019 | PNS | Chandigarh

Aiming to render appropriate and timely humanitarian assistance to the people affected by natural disasters and accidents, Punjab Government is pondering over introducing a comprehensive relief policy.

Informing this, the state’s Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management Minister Gurpreet Singh Kangar said that a Cabinet Sub-committee, under the chairmanship of Finance Minister Manpreet Badal, has been constituted with Cabinet Ministers Sadhu Singh Dharmsot and Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa along with him being its members.

“This Committee will meet on Wednesday and explore the possibility of bringing a comprehensive relief policy which would cover the victims of all natural disasters and accidents,” he said.

After the preliminary meeting on the subject with the officers of Revenue Department, Kangar said that in the present scenario, relief is provided to the victims or their kin depending on the nature of exigency, be it riots, road or rail accidents, natural disasters etc.

“Different departments facilitate the same as per their departmental policies. In fact, at times, inadvertent delay occurs in documentation or verification and the release of monetary assistance. Hence, it has been decided to develop a comprehensive relief policy which would cater to rendering relief to the victims of all sorts of disasters or accidents,” he said.

Kangar said that modalities of the policy as to what kind of accidents or disasters are to be covered, and how to implement the policy, would be discussed by the Cabinet Sub-committee and thereafter the work to draft the policy would be initiated.

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