Kolkata: You came far to meet me, so, I came to meet you, told West Bengal Chief Minister Mamatha Banerjee to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, who visited the State to assess the Yass Cyclone damage in the State.

Chief Minister Mamatha Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kalaikunda Air Base in West Midnapore district, and she handedover a damage note to PM and spent 15 minutes with him and then she left to visit the cyclone damaged areas.

Modi and Mamatha Banerjee were to hold a review meeting to assess damage from Cyclone Yaas, which hit Bengal and Odisha this week. She estimated the damage caused by the Cyclone Yass to her state at ₹ 15,000 crore including the destruction of three lakh houses and 134 embankments and has already announced a rescue package of ₹ 1,000 crore.

Speaking to the media persons Mamatha Banerjee said that, I told him you came far to meet me. You wanted to meet me, so I came. My Chief Secretary and I, we are submitting this report to you. I now have to go to Digha as per my schedule. So I am taking your leave. Now I am here, where we are holding our administrative review meeting. Tomorrow we will conduct an aerial survey of affected regions, she added.

Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari were at the meet she skipped. Prime Minister Modi also took aerial surveys of regions affected by Yaas, which caused havoc across South and North 24 Paraganas, Digha, East Medinipur and Nandigram districts of the state.

Later Prime Minister announced ₹ 1,000 crore for relief measures. ₹ 500 crore is to be given immediately to Odisha, with equal sums for Bengal and Jharkhand. These will be released on the basis of damage. He also announced a compensation of ₹ 2 lakh for the bereaved families of each of those who died in cyclone related incidents. A sum of ₹ 50,000 would be paid to those injured in such incidents.