Overview

• After a unanimous assembly resolution, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann met Union Home Minister Amit Shah to press for a special package and an upgrade of SDRF/NDRF norms, citing preliminary losses of ₹13,832 crore.
• Punjab’s resolution accuses the Centre of non-response, seeks immediate transfer of the Prime Minister’s announced ₹1,600 crore, and describes damage affecting over 20 lakh people and nearly five lakh acres of crops.
• Punjab announced ₹20,000 per acre for 75–100% crop loss, ₹10,000 per acre for lower bands, ₹1.20 lakh for fully damaged houses, ₹7,200 per acre for desilting, and ₹47,500 per hectare for land washed away.
• The state says special girdawari will be completed by October 15, with compensation slated to reach affected families before Diwali.
• In Maharashtra, officials estimate damage across about 60 lakh hectares; the government has disbursed ₹2,215 crore for earlier losses, plans a relief package next week with benefits equivalent to drought measures, directed banks to pause recoveries, and begun distributing ₹10,000 in cash plus food grains to affected households.