Overview
- More than 30,000 households received funds on Wednesday for homes damaged in the August–September floods.
- Each fully damaged house is covered by a ₹1.20 lakh package, with ₹70,000 already released and the remainder to be paid in two instalments.
- Beneficiaries are being provided 90 days of wage employment under MGNREGA to support reconstruction.
- Officials cited nearly 30,000 houses damaged statewide, including 8,056 in Gurdaspur, with overall flood losses estimated at about ₹13,500 crore.
- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann urged the Union government to release a previously announced ₹1,600 crore relief tranche, noting that crop-loss payments at ₹20,000 per acre have begun.