West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that the state has incurred a total loss of more than Rs 20,000 crore due to Cyclone Yaas which battered the state last week. She added that around 2.21 lakh hectare of crops were damaged.
The chief minister said that the state has opened around 1200 relief camps in which 2 lakh odd people have taken shelter following the cyclone which made landfall in neighbouring Odisha on May 26.
Banerjee on May 28 submitted a report to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the damages caused by the cyclone, and sought a Rs 20,000-crore package for redevelopment of the worst-affected areas.
The chief minister said that repair works for 305 embankments out of the 329 damaged ones have been started.
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