Unable to establish a direct contact with the Jammu and Kashmir Government due to telecom disruption in wake of floods, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday sought directions from the Centre to offer all help and cooperation to the flood affected people in the best possible manner after consulting its Government.
Badal, writing separate letters to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, has asked the Centre to inform the Punjab Government about the nodal authorities to be contacted in this regard.
The Chief Minister stated that unprecedented calamity had struck Jammu and Kashmir last week, in which many precious lives had been lost in this worst ever catastrophe besides large number of people were rendered homeless.
“While the assessment of damage to individual property and vital infrastructure in the state would take sometime, the Punjab Government is keen to render immediate assistance to the J&K Government in handling this grave situation by all means in terms of food article supplies, medicines, doctors, blankets, clothes or anything else the government of J&K needed,” stated Badal.
Badal said: “My heart goes out for the people of J&K who have suffered this disaster. The people of Punjab and my Government share the grief with the people of J&K and express complete solidarity with them in this hour of crisis.”
The Chief Minister also apprised the Centre that he had personally urged the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) to send food articles to J&K.
Hooda announces relief material for flood affected
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announced to send five trucks of sugar, five trucks of other food items (Chivre) and medicines worth Rs50 lakh as relief material for the flood affected people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Hooda has earlier announced to send 50,000 blankets as a relief material to the affected people.
He also assured help of any kind required for the relief operation and said that the Government and the people of Haryana are with the affected people of the Jammu and Kashmir in this hour of crisis.
The state government has appointed Principal Secretary, Social Justice and Empowerment Department, PK Das as the nodal officer of state for efficient handling of relief assistance.