A World Bank team will on Wednesday hold discussions with District Collector U.V. Jose and other government officials at a city resort before embarking on an exercise to assess the damage due to floods in the district.
The team comprising Hemang Karelia, Venkata Rao Bayana, S. Vaideeswaran, Anup Karanth, Satidh, Sagar Sharma, Uri Raich, Mahesh Patel and Srinivasa Rao Podippireddy will carry out a field visit to various parts of the district and prepare a report to be presented to the government.
A 30-member team of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has begun touring various districts in the State. The team visiting Kozhikode is one of the three groups.
Aid sought
Senior representatives of the World Bank and the ADB had held discussions with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Chief Secretary Tom Jose last month. The State government had sought loans from the international financial institutions to rebuild the State.
The Collector will make a presentation on the damage suffered in the floods before the World Bank team in the morning. “ Kozhikode suffered a loss of ₹700 crore due to rain havoc in June, July and August. The team will visit the flood-ravaged regions on a priority basis,” Mr. Jose told The Hindu on Tuesday.
Mr. Jose said the team would visit Cheruvannur, Malikkadavu, Chelavoor, Mukkom, Kooderanji, Thiruvambady, Kodencherry, Karinchola , Kannappankundu and also the Thamarassery Ghat Road connecting Kozhikode to Wayanad.
The team will then leave for Wayanad and later Malappuram to undertake a rapid assessment of the damage in the neighbouring districts, he added.
Casualties
Fourteen persons were killed in the Karinchola incident where five houses were buried under soil following a major landslip in the region in June. Two persons were killed and several houses washed away in multiple landslips and flash floods in Kannappankundu in Puthuppadi panchayat.
Around 45,000 people, mostly from the hilly regions of the district, had to abandon their homes and settle at relief camps during the floods. The Ghat Road bore the brunt of the landslips, affecting the movement of vehicles in July and August.
