Reportedly six months after the devastating Kerala floods, nearly 21,000 families in Kochi are yet to be compensated by the state government for their damaged houses. Meanwhile many of these families have been turning up at the Collectorate to demand their flood relief aid, officials revealed.
Furthermore for the past one week, scores of people were observed waiting in long queues at the redressal cell of the Kochi Collectorate to demand compensation. Apparently it even created panic among officials when a woman who was waiting in the queue collapsed due to exhaustion. Following this, the people were shifted to the AC conference hall.
P D Sheela Devi, disaster management deputy collector, told “We were keen to find why more and more people were turning up these days to the redressal cell. Only in the meeting did we find that most of the people had come with new application forms to be included in the list of people whose house was destroyed”. Moreover according to officials of the district administration Rs 26 crore has now been sanctioned to be distributed to the rest of the people in the list whose house has been partially damaged.
