India, Sept. 18 -- People's safety remains the top priority of the Himachal Pradesh government and people still residing in unsafe buildings must be relocated to secure places to ensure their safety, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said on Wednesday. "Safety of the people of the state remains the top priority for the state government and under the Special Relief Package, the state government is providing Rs 10,000 and Rs 5,000 as rent in urban and rural areas for those rendered homeless during the disaster," he said in a statement issued here. The chief minister chaired a high-level meeting here to assess the damages caused by the torrential rains and review the situation across the state in the last 48 hours.

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