Utilisation certificates not given for 50% of money sanctioned after 2018 deluge, says Centre
The Centre will not allot any additional assistance to Kerala from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) as it has failed to produce utilisation certificates for 50% of over Rs. 3,000 crore fund allotted to it after the 2018 floods, a senior Home Ministry official said on Thursday.
The Kerala government had demanded an additional Rs.2,000 crore from the fund after the 2019 floods. Kerala was hit by successive floods in 2018 and 2019.
“The Kerala government has not been able to spend the amount released under the NDRF for the 2018 floods, nor they have been able to provide proof of the number of victims who were helped. Till April last year, they had spent only Rs. 900 crore out of ?3,000 crore sanctioned funds,” said the official.
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