India state to build 100 villages
The government of the western Indian state of Maharashtra is to create 100 new villages to rehabilitate victims of this year’s floods.
Some 5,000 families are homeless after their villages were completely wiped out in floods in July, the worst in the state’s history.
A senior official told the BBC it would take a couple of years and millions of dollars to complete the project.
More than 1,000 people died in the floods in Maharashtra. Never before has an Indian state had to lay out villages to accommodate displaced people.
The mammoth task will include building homes, village markets, tube wells, hospitals, schools and public toilets.
Source: BBC.
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