PM Modi conducts aerial survey of landslide-hit areas of Wayanad
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Wayanad: In this district in north Kerala, where hundreds of people have died as a result of landslides, Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted an aerial survey on Saturday.
Around 11.15 am, Modi left Kannur Airport for Wayanad on an Indian Air Force helicopter to conduct an aerial survey of the hamlets of Chooralmala, Mundakkai, and Punchirimattom, which had been devastated by landslides.
The PM was accompanied by Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Union Minister of State for Tourism and Petroleum and Natural Gas Suresh Gopi, PTI reported.
After the aerial survey, he will land at the SKMJ Higher Secondary School in Kalpetta here from where Modi will proceed to certain landslides-hit areas by road.
His visit comes at a time when the Kerala government has sought Rs 2,000 crore in assistance for rehabilitation and relief work in the disaster-stricken region.
More than 400 people died and many remain unaccounted for after landslides hit the region on July 30 in what is seen as one of the biggest natural disasters to have impacted the southern state.