The center cannot take the attitude that it is unable to issue a directive to give up/write off the loans of persons affected by disasters with heavy size, such as Wayanad land landslides, by citing a section that was removed from the Act on Catastrophe (DM), Kerala Court said on Friday.
This was after the center quoted Section 13 of the DM Act, which was legally removed at the beginning of this year. According to the section, the center could recommend relief on repayment of loans to persons affected by disasters with heavy size.
During the hearing of the Suo Mot, which was submitted by the High Court after a massive land lands and soil in Wayanad, the court stated that the center has Article 73 of the Constitution (which defines the scope of the Union’s executive power) on which it will rely on.
“Do not tell us that the center is helpless (as a result of the removal of section 13 by law DM). The center has still retained its power to act because it did not fulfill much by law DM. It is unable to remedy the legal provision to say that the center should not act to act.”
On Wednesday, the High Court informed that Section 13, which was seized by the National Authority for the Management of the Disaster to recommend the banks to surrender/write off loans or provide new loans to persons affected by a serious size, was removed by law by a change.
Main Minister Pinarayi Vijayan wrote Narendra Modim on Thursday, looking for an intervention to restore section 13 of the DM Act. In the letter he said that his removal would further concern victims of natural disasters.
Published – June 13, 2025 20:30
