Overview
- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann met Union home minister Amit Shah to seek a ₹20,000 crore special package and a revision of SDRF/NDRF norms, calling the earlier ₹1,600 crore pledge insufficient.
- The Home Ministry said the Centre stands with Punjab, noting the state has ₹12,589.59 crore available under SDRF and that remaining central funds will follow once Punjab submits a detailed loss memorandum.
- An Inter-Ministerial Central Team visited flood-hit areas from September 3 to 6 for on-the-spot assessment, but the Centre says a formal state memorandum is still awaited under approved norms.
- Punjab pegs preliminary losses at ₹13,832 crore, citing over 20 lakh people affected across 2,614 villages, 6.87 lakh displaced, 4.8 lakh acres of crops destroyed, and extensive damage to roads, bridges and mandis.
- The state has raised its own compensation rates—including up to ₹20,000 per acre for severe crop loss and ₹1.20 lakh for fully damaged houses—and targets completing girdawari by October 15 to begin payouts before Diwali.