Declaring the Leh disaster a severe natural calamity, government has allowed the members of Parliament to contribute 50 lakh rupees from the MPLAD scheme towards relief in the cloudburst affected region. The funds in this regard would be released by the district authority of the MP's constituency to its counterpart in Leh to get permissible work done.The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats has told the members that an MP could recommend an amount of 50 lakhs off his fund for severe natural calamity occurred in any part of the country.