Chandigarh, Sept. 13 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday chaired a high-level meeting with officials to review the ongoing relief and rehabilitation measures in flood-hit areas of the state and said that the entire exercise of disbursing the compensation to the affected people will be completed by Diwali.

Addressing a press conference at his official residence here, the chief minister said that the special "girdawari" (crop damage assessment) will start from September 13.

"We will work on a war footing to provide relief to the affected people. Within 45 days, maximum by Diwali, we will hand over the cheques of the relief to the victims," said Mann, who was discharged from a private hospital in Mohali on Thursday, where he was admi...