Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that State government has taken special steps for solving flood and erosion problem.
In a statement, Sonowal said that State government has already sent a letter to the 15th Finance Commission, requesting it for granting adequate compensatory measures towards relief and rehabilitation of erosion-hit people and consider erosion as a natural calamity.
Inresponse to Assam Government's letter, the 15th Finance Commissionaccorded river erosion as a natural calamity and recommended for adequatecompensation including rehabilitation under SDRF and NDRF.
Statingthat Central Government has asked the State to submit a detailed reportincorporating the details of those victims in the state who rendered landlessand homeless due to erosion, Sonowal said that his government is preparing adetailed report for the same to be submitted to the Centre. He also exudedconfidence,this would ultimately bring to an end to the long pending problemthat the people of Assam have been going through owning to erosion.
