Haryana on Tuesday sent a consignment of 11,000 tents to Uttarakhand as a part of the relief supplies to help those affected by the devastation caused due to heavy rains, floods and landslides.
Additional Chief Secretary-cum- Financial Commissioner, Revenue and Disaster Management , Haryana, Krishna Mohan said that tents have been sent on the demand of the Uttarakhand Government.
He said that according to the reports received from control room set up by Haryana Government in Chandigarh, out of the total 10,44 pilgrims stranded in Uttarakhand, 385 have safely reached their homes yesterday by the afternoon. In addition, the Deputy Commissioner, Ghaziabad has also sent 31 pilgrims back to their homes in Haryana. Haryana had earlier sent over 25,000 blankets to help stranded pilgrims and other people following heavy rains, flash floods and landslides that cut off major areas of Uttarakhand and devastated a large number of towns and villages.
In view of the disaster, the Haryana Secretariat Service Officers’ Association decided to donate one day’s salary of its members to Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. The President of the Association, Ramesh Gaba said that the Executive Council of the Association has passed a resolution in this regard. Therefore, one day’s salary of the members of the Association would be deducted out of the salary for the month of June and credited to Chief Minister’s Relief Fund.