patna bihar government on monday sought a financial assistance of rs 7636 crore from the centre for carrying out restoration and reconstruction of the damages caused by the recent devastating floods in the statestate government today sent a memorandum to the centre detailing the damages caused by the recent floods in 19 districts affecting 17164 lakh people we have sought an assistance of rs 7636 crore cm nitish kumar told reporters after his weekly lok samvad programme heremeanwhile the narendra modi government has agreed to send a highlevel interministerial central team to bihar to assess the damages caused by the floods that claimed a total 514 lives and left behind a trail of destruction in major parts of north biharthe centre has communicated us about the formation of the interministerial team the team for bihar which will be led by mukesh mittal joint secretary in the union ministry of home affairs will visit soon for an onthespot assessment of the damages states principal secretary disaster management pratyay amrit told toi on mondaythe team would have representatives from the ministries of water resources agriculture and farmers welfare finance rural development drinking water and sanitation and road transport and highway amrit saidhowever the date for visit of the central team is yet to be announced we wish central team visits the state soon and provide necessary assistance to the state nitish saidcm said the state governments memorandum which contains the details of damages to crops houses roads bridges and other items has been prepared in a pragmatic manner taking every details in the accountearlier the pm after taking an aerial survey of floodhit districts of purnia kishanganj araria and katihar on august 26 had announced immediate assistance of rs 500 crore and had also promised of further assistanceto a question cm said the then upa government had provided an assistance of rs 1010 crore in 2008 only for basic relief like distribution of food packets polythene sheets and others it had given no assistance for rehabilitation and restoration work postkoshi delugehe said then the state government had to get a loan of rs 1000 crore from the world bank for carrying out rehabilitation worknitish said this year the state government has sent a total amount of rs 2600 crore to the floodaffected districts for distribution of gratuitous relief of rs 6000 per family around 13 lakh families have already been given rs 6000 each for meeting their immediate needs including ration through rtgs in their bank account cm said