5 Dec : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar urged the Centre to extend financial assistance for rehabilitation of those affected by the recent floods in the state on the lines of the ones provided to the tsunami victims.
"We have submitted a detailed report to the Centre seeking financial package for rehabilitating the victims of Kosi floods on the lines of tsunami victims and our officials are holding discussions with the officials concerned in New Delhi in this connection," Kumar said.
The Chief Minister, while intervening during the state Disaster Management Minister Nitish Mishra’s reply to a short notice question of Kishore Kumar (Ind) on the recent floods in the state, said the Centre had provided a sum of Rs one lakh to each of the households as part of the rehabilitation package after tsunami hit the country.
Even as the opposition parties continued to boycott the proceedings of the House for the third consecutive day demanding extension of the "extremely brief" session, Kumar urged the opposition leaders to mount pressure on the Centre for sanctioning the rehabilitation package for flood hit people shortly.