Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today sought more central assistance for providing relief and rescue operations to the victims of devastating flood in the state.
Kumar, who met Union Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrashekhar and his team, said the state government has formed a high level team under Development Commissioner to undertake rehabilitation of people, displaced by ravaging Koshi river which breached embankment at Kushaha in Nepal on August 18.
The chief minister sought more central assistance for flood-affected people and told the members that "protection" work on the breached side of Kosi embankment, which remained cut off since August 18, would be completed by September six.
However, the plugging of the breached area and bringing the river back to its original course would take sometime as it is a long term project, Kumar told the visiting team.
Besides the Cabinet Secretary, Defence Secretary Vijay Singh, Home Secretary (border management) Janrail Singh, Water Resources Development Secretary U N Panjiyar, National Disaster Management Authority Secretary, H S Brahma, Secretary-Security (Cabinet Secretariat) K C Verma, Joint Secretary (Home) Vimal Juneka and other officials were present at the meeting.
The team members discussed how the Centre could help the state in overcoming the national calamity.
