No proposal for sea erosion protection pending: Union Minister
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Pankaj Chaudhary, Union Minister of State for Finance, has said that no proposals for flood management and border areas programme was pending with the ministry.He was answering a question raised in th
Pankaj Chaudhary, Union Minister of State for Finance, has said that no proposals for flood management and border areas programme was pending with the ministry. He was answering a question raised in the Lok Sabha by Hibi Eden, MP, on July 19, whether any project proposals to contain sea erosion, including in Chellanam, in Ernakulam district, was pending with the Union government. The Minister said that activities related to prevention of flooding were State subjects and that the Union government had been providing technical and financial support for the efforts. The Union government had allotted ₹55 crore for these activities during 2014-15 and ₹19 crore during 2017-18.
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