New Delhi
As relief operations continued in full swing, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Jammu and Kashmir where the deadly earthquake has claimed 1200 lives so far.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew into quake-ravaged region in north Kashmir on Tuesday and announced an additional assistance of Rs 500 crore to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Singh made the announcement at a small public meeting in Jammu after an on-the-spot assessment of the damage caused by the magnitude 7.6 killer quake on Saturday.
The Union government had earlier announced an ad hoc Rs 100 crore aid to the state, while the Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that another Rs 42 crore would be given from the Natural Calamity Fund for rehabilitation work.
Tangdhar in Kupwara district, close to the Line of Control, along with Uri region in Baramulla district is among the worst affected areas as they are in proximity to the epicentre of the quake in Muzaffarabad.
The deadly earthquake has killed over 1,200 people in Kashmir.
?1,194 civilians have been killed and over 5,796 people are injured,? said the inspector-general of police in Jammu and Kashmir, Javed Makdhoomi.
Officials fear as many as 2,000 people may have died with the fate of about 10,000 people living in remote border areas still not known.
At least 21,000 people have died across the border in Pakistan, where authorities fear double that number could have lost their lives.
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