Amidst the challenge to get the resources together to fund the large-scale Rs. 40, 000 crore farm loan waiver, the Karnataka government has chalked up an estimate of Rs. 3000 crores so as to rebuild buildings, roads and bridges across the number of districts that had been severely stricken by the lashing rains and landslides happening in the last three months. An elaborated proposal that is to be submitted to the Union government, with the estimated cost for restructuring will be formulated in the next two days.
At a review meeting to asses the damage done by the incessant rains in Karnataka, H.D. Kumaraswamy, the Chief Minister was informed that an amount of Rs. 3,000 crore was needed so as to put 2,225 km of the National and State Highways back and certain important district roads aside of the 240 bridges that had collapsed. The meeting conducted on Monday took stock of the damage happened during the floods in nine districts in Karnataka that have been lashed out by the rain in the past three months.
The meeting was conducted so as to hold a discussion for the proposals that are to be sent to the Union government so as to get a compensation for the losses that have been suffered so far. The highways that have been become completely off-limits for traffic because of landslips are the NH 275 stretch between Madikeri-Sullia, the NH 75 stretch between Sakleshpur and Gundiya and the NH 234 stretch between Kottoghera and Charmadi.
More so, Kumaraswamy has asked the officials to chalk out an elaborated proposal delineating the damage and the estimated costs for repairing public property that includes buildings, bridges, and roads; estimated losses to plantation crops like paddy, coffee, arecanut and pepper.
Amidst this, a senior official involved in rehabilitation and relief operations stated that it would take a couple of more days to get a final evaluation of the damages in the flood-hit areas since the survey work was still being conducted.
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