Central team on visit to Arunachal Pradesh to assess damage

Itanagar: A high level inter-ministerial central team led by Prafulla Kerketta, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, is on a five-day visit to Arunachal Pradesh. Their visit is aimed to assess the damages caused due to natural disasters during 2012 in the state and verify the worst affected areas, official sources said here on Sunday.
Chief Minister Nabam Tuki had been pressing the Centre for sending a high-level central team for assessment of the flood-affected areas.  The team of five representing various ministries would be conducting aerial and field survey of flood affected districts of Lower Subansiri, Lower Dibang Valley, Changlang, East Siang, Dibang Valley, Lohit, Anjaw, Papumpare, East Kameng and West Kameng.
Tuki apprised the visiting central team about the lives and property losses in the state during 2012. The team had called on him on Saturday.  Tuki pointed out that the preceding year had witnessed the worst disaster as nature had created havoc disrupting surface communication for months and claimed numerous lives and damaged properties.
The chief engineers of the state gave a statistical figure of the loss caused due to landslides and landslips which disrupted the surface communication, the sources said. (PTI)