Rahul gandhi refers landslides in wayanad as "National Disaster"...
As the death toll from the landslides that destroyed the Chooralmala and Mundakkai areas near Meppadi in Kerala's wayanad district approached 200, rescue efforts continued on Thursday. kerala Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced that, in order to protect the privacy of individual family members, the government would set up relief camps in the wayanad region, which was devastated by landslides. Mr. Vijayan informed reporters that the administration would impose admission limits on camps in order to maintain internal peace after presiding over an all-party convention in Wayanad. "The district government will set up registration kiosks to take visitor names. There will be a common area set aside for meetings and interviews. He proclaimed, "Camps will not be open to cameras."
On thursday afternoon, Priyanka gandhi Vadra, the sister of congress leader and former wayanad mp rahul gandhi, visited the Chooralmala neighborhood of wayanad that had been hit by a landslide. Along with them are K. C. Venugopal, the mp for Alappuzha, and the general secretary of the AICC.
In Wayanad's hilly regions, landslides caused by very heavy rain resulted in at least 167 fatalities and over 200 injuries. The kerala government has set up two control rooms, 8086010833 and 96566938689, to handle public distress calls.Ex gratia payments of ₹2 lakh to the deceased's families and ₹50,000 to the injured have been declared by prime minister Narendra Modi.
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