Floods: Assam government asked to submit report on funds utilisation

  • 11/09/2008

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

Sushanta Talukdar Centre should treat Assam floods as natural calamity: AGP Huge amount has been kept unspent GUWAHATI: Though Assam has been allocated Rs. 210.62 crore under the Calamity Relief Fund for the year 2008-09, the Finance Ministry has not released the first instalment of the central share (Rs. 78.78 crore), due to be released in June, owing to non-submission of an utilisation report by the State government. This was disclosed in a letter written by Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs V. Radhika Selvi to Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) MP from the Lakhimpur Lok Sabha constituency Arun Kumar Sharma. The letter was in response to the MP