A high-powered committee comprising Revenue Minister Jagat Singh Negi, Technical Education Minister Rajesh Dharmani, and Dharampur MLA Chander Shekhar has been constituted to finalize the venue for the event.
The financial assistance aims to help families whose houses were either completely or partially damaged during the recent natural calamities.
Heavy rains and a cloudburst in Dharampur, Mandi district, Himachal Pradesh, submerged a bus stand, caused landslides, swept away vehicles, and disrupted normal life.
Six people, comprising four of a family, were killed after a landslide buried two houses in Sundernagar town in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district, police said on Wednesday.
Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, on Sunday, reviewed the situation arising from incessant rainfall in the Mandi, Kullu, and Kinnaur districts of Himachal Pradesh.
Three persons were killed and one went missing after flash floods, triggered by a cloudburst in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, wreaked havoc in Himachal's Mandi town.
Continuous heavy rainfall since late Monday night has thrown life out of gear in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.
Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu conducted a three-day visit to Mandi district to assess the damage caused by heavy rains and cloudbursts.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Saturday said that the situation in the rain-ravaged Seraj Assembly constituency of Mandi district is gradually returning to normal.
Bollywood actor and BJP MP from Mandi, Kangana Ranaut, has come under criticism for her continued absence from flood-affected areas in Himachal Pradesh, particularly in her own Mandi parliamentary constituency.
