The West Bengal government on Saturday revised its assessment of the damage caused by Cyclone Amphan, telling an Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) that the state had been set back by Rs 1,02,442 lakh crore. The day before, the Mamata Banerjee administration had reported losses worth Rs 80,000 crore.
The Centre’s representatives, who had arrived in the state on Thursday on a three-day visit, met Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha, Home Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay and other senior officials and secretaries at state secretariat Nabanna for almost an hour after surveying cyclone-hit areas in North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas for two days.
