MHA constitutes inter-ministerial team to assess damages in Gujarat caused by floods

New Delhi [India], September 1 : Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted an Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) to assess damages caused by rainfall and floods in Gujarat, the Ministry said on Sunday in a statement.
The IMCT, led by the executive director of National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), will shortly visit the flood affected districts of the state, it mentioned.
During August 25-30, Gujarat was severely affected by heavy to extremely heavy rainfall due to a deep depression formed over Rajasthan and Gujarat.
The states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan were also affected by heavy to very heavy rainfall. During this year, Himachal Pradesh has also been affected by various spells of heavy rainfall, cloudbursts and landslides.
The MHA is in touch with senior officers of these states, and will depute IMCT there as well, if the severe damages are reported by them, said the Ministry.
During the current monsoon season, some other states have been affected by heavy rainfall, floods, cloudbursts and landslides.
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the statement said, the Centre government is fully committed to provide all possible help to affected states.
As per the significant decision taken by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah in August 2019, MHA has constituted IMCTs during this year which have visited the flood and landslides affected states of Assam, Kerala, Mizoram, and Tripura in advance for on the spot assessment of the damages, without waiting for their memorandum, it said.
The IMCT for Nagaland has also been constituted, which will visit the affected areas of the State shortly.
In the past, the IMCT used to visit the disaster affected states only after the receipt of memorandum from the state government.