Rahul Gandhi urged PM Modi to announce a special relief package for Punjab, J-K, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh, as unrelenting rains and floods disrupt lives, destroy homes, and affect over 2.5 lakh people across northern India.
Chandrababu Naidu says the government is also planning to give varying degrees of compensation to those who lost all their household appliances and articles
The finance minister provided Rs 23,220 crore of additional funding to set up children and pediatric care at hospitals to prepare healthcare infrastructure to deal with any emergency.
Suggesting some measures, Assocham president Vineet Agarwal said banks should increase working capital limit of MSMEs by 20 per cent but not charge any extra collateral.