<p>Thiruvananthapuram: In a relief to Kerala, the Union government has informed the state that the July 30 landslides at Mundakkai-Chooralmala regions of Wayanad are being considered as a disaster of 'severe nature'.</p><p>It is in a letter to state revenue department principal secretary Tinku Biswal, Centre informed that the inter-ministerial central team that reviews the destructions caused by the landside is considering the Wayanad landslide as a disaster of severe nature.</p><p>Government sources said that once a calamity is classified by the centre as 'calamity of severe nature', funds could be allotted from the National Disaster Response Fund for the relief and rehabilitation measures. </p><p>MPs would be able to recommend works up to Rs 1 crore from the MPLADS fund. The 2018 floods of Kerala that claimed nearly 500 lives was declared as 'calamity of severe nature'.</p>.Wayand landslides: The many challenges of DNA tests to identify victims.<p>Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan continued his attack against the centre for delaying central assistance for rehabilitation of the landslide hit people. </p><p>Addressing a public meeting he alleged that the centre was showing discrimination towards Kerala by denying assistance to the state while many other states that suffered calamities of lower intensity even after the Wayanad landslide were given assistance at once. "Is Kerala not part of India," he asked.</p>
<p>Thiruvananthapuram: In a relief to Kerala, the Union government has informed the state that the July 30 landslides at Mundakkai-Chooralmala regions of Wayanad are being considered as a disaster of 'severe nature'.</p><p>It is in a letter to state revenue department principal secretary Tinku Biswal, Centre informed that the inter-ministerial central team that reviews the destructions caused by the landside is considering the Wayanad landslide as a disaster of severe nature.</p><p>Government sources said that once a calamity is classified by the centre as 'calamity of severe nature', funds could be allotted from the National Disaster Response Fund for the relief and rehabilitation measures. </p><p>MPs would be able to recommend works up to Rs 1 crore from the MPLADS fund. The 2018 floods of Kerala that claimed nearly 500 lives was declared as 'calamity of severe nature'.</p>.Wayand landslides: The many challenges of DNA tests to identify victims.<p>Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan continued his attack against the centre for delaying central assistance for rehabilitation of the landslide hit people. </p><p>Addressing a public meeting he alleged that the centre was showing discrimination towards Kerala by denying assistance to the state while many other states that suffered calamities of lower intensity even after the Wayanad landslide were given assistance at once. "Is Kerala not part of India," he asked.</p>