A total of 64 family members of the 97 people killed in landslides last month at Taliye and Kevnale villages in Raigad district of Maharashtra has received a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each so far, district officials said on Tuesday.
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₹181 crore collected in CMPRF so far
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has ordered the use of ₹50 crore from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund (CMPRF) for procuring RT-PCR kits. As of Sunday, ₹181 crore had been collected in the CMPRF.
An unprecedented 1.6 lakh RT-PCR tests are conducted in a day, an official release said.
It may be recalled that the Chief Minister had already ordered that ₹25 crore be used to source Remdesivir and other life-saving drugs for the State, and another ₹25 crore for liquid oxygen for hospitals in Tamil Nadu from other States.
Earlier this month, Mr. Stalin had appealed to the people and corporates to donate generously to the CMPRF to help the State government fight the pandemic.
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