Highlights: Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Uttarakhand situation

• Over 1 lakh people are safely back home
• Will reconstruct with eye on future
  
• We'll cover all commercial establishments in the relief; dhabas will be covered
• Thankful to the PM, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for standing by Uttarakhand in this hour of need
• A statutory body named Uttarakhand Rehabilitation And Redevelopment Authority has been set up
• Students till intermediate to be given one-time relief of Rs 500, college students to get Rs 1000
• Interest on loans from state banks deferred for a year, free electricity, water to be provided
  
• Now the relief and restoration work has begun
• For small industries, Rs 50,000 to 1 lakh will be given; for small hotel, Rs 2 lakh
• This money will be given for relief work
• There will helicopter dropping
• It is the responsibility of the District Magistrates to deliver goods
• No house will be allowed to be built by the river bank
• Orphaned kids will be under the care of the state government

Jairam Ramesh:

• We may get help from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank for the rehabilitation of Uttarakhand
• Under MNREGA we are considering providing guaranteed employment for 150 days instead of 100 days
• Under Indira Awas Yojna, we'll get an additional 14,000 houses built in Uttarakhand with central funding
• From PM Gram Sadak Yojna, we will provide central funds to re-establish road connectivity to 1,400 villages in Uttarakhand