Sleuths of the Shashastra Seema Bal (SSB) flagged off six trucks containing essential commodities to Uttarakhand for undertaking relief operations in the flood affected villages of the State.
According to public relation officer of the SSB (lucknow frontier), P N Kashinath, the sleuths of the various battalions of the State collected essential commodities worth over Rs 22 lakh.
He said that they later packed it into 2000 odd bags (rahat kits) to distribute it amongst victims
in Uttrakhand. He said that the members of the Sandiksha (the SSB Women’s Welfare Association) under the leadership of Smt Smita Verma, Chairperson ‘Sandiksha’ later flagged off the above consignments loaded on trucks to Uttrakhand on Saturday morning. Kashninath further said that Avinash Chandra, who is inspector general (IG) of SSB lucknow Frontier’s office had also constituted a Medical Team to extend medical facilities to the survivors in the hill state. He has also instructed his Staff Officer (Admn.)KC Dhobal to camp in Uttarakhand and personally supervise the relief operations.
He said that the SSB team already reached the affected areas and started relief operations besides running health check-up camps. Kashninath claimed that apart from above the Officers and Staff of SSB lucknow Frontier have also contributed a day’s pay to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund.