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Home / News / India News / Akhilesh Yadav seeks Rs.11,000 crore from the Centre to tackle drought
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    Akhilesh Yadav seeks Rs.11,000 crore from the Centre to tackle drought

    Vaneet Randhawa
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    Last updated on May 07, 2016, 07:19 pm
    Akhilesh Yadav seeks Rs.11,000 crore from the Centre to tackle drought
  • In a meeting with the Prime Minister, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav sought approximately Rs.11,000 crore from the Centre towards the state's drought relief.

    Yadav told the PM that funds would be used to buy 10,000 tankers to carry water to villages that have been hit by the drought.

    Yadav told the media that "the Centre and the state have to work together".

  • In this article
    Acute water scarcity in drought hit Bundelkhand Reason for the drought UP's action plan for repair of water bodies UP turns down Centre's water-train to Bundelkhand Yadav's reply for refusing water-train from Centre Akhilesh Yadav seeks Rs.11,000 crore from the Centre to tackle drought Centre's monetary assistance to UP
  • 29 Apr 2016

    Acute water scarcity in drought hit Bundelkhand

    Acute water scarcity in drought hit Bundelkhand
  • 50 districts in Uttar Pradesh have been witnessing one of the most severe droughts.

    7 districts of Bundelkhand- Chitrakoot, Banda, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Lalitpur, Jhansi and Banda are the worst off.

    The drinking water scarcity has been made worse by the high salinity levels of water in the region.

    The Akhilesh Yadav government announced Rs.30 crore for solving the drinking water scarcity in Bundelkhand.

  • Reason

    Reason for the drought

    Reason for the drought
  • While the UP administration has attributed the drought to deficit rainfall, natural scarcity of water and additional climatic factors, environmentalists beg to differ.

    Environment activists contended that the encroachment of Chandela-era ponds and overall deforestation was to be blamed.

    A RTI report highlighted that in the past decade, almost 4,020 ponds had "vanished" in Bundelkhand, principally because of encroachments by land sharks.

  • Information

    UP's action plan for repair of water bodies

  • In a memorandum to the PMO, UP had shared its action plan for renewal and repair of 78,000 water-bodies such as tanks, ponds, and farm ponds; 100,000 new water-bodies and recharge structures.

  • 5 May 2016

    UP turns down Centre's water-train to Bundelkhand

    UP turns down Centre's water-train to Bundelkhand
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  • The UP government rejected the Centre's proposal to send a water-train to the state's drought-hit Bundelkhand region.

    UP CM said the water crisis situation was not as drastic as in Maharashtra's Latur.

    He, however, asked the Centre to give UP 10,000 water tankers for circulating water in the region.

    The afflicted Bundelkhand area is spread across 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

  • Quote

    Yadav's reply for refusing water-train from Centre

  • Replying to the media on UP's refusal to accept water train, CM Yadav said "Water is available in Bundelkhand, dam is hardly 5kms away. We just have to make arrangements for distribution of water".

  • 7 May 2016

    Akhilesh Yadav seeks Rs.11,000 crore from the Centre to tackle drought

    Akhilesh Yadav seeks Rs.11,000 crore from the Centre to tackle drought
  • In a meeting with the Prime Minister, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav sought approximately Rs.11,000 crore from the Centre towards the state's drought relief.

    Yadav told the PM that funds would be used to buy 10,000 tankers to carry water to villages that have been hit by the drought.

    Yadav told the media that "the Centre and the state have to work together".

  • 7 May 2016

    Centre's monetary assistance to UP

    Centre's monetary assistance to UP
  • At the meeting with the PM, it was told that Rs.934.32 crore has been allocated to UP under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF).

    Additionally, Rs.506.25 crore had been released as the Centre's share of State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for 2015-16 to the state.

    The PMO also announced the allocation of Rs.265.87 crore as the first instalment of the SDRF for 2016-17.

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