Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda visited Dehradun, Rishikesh and Haridwar on Sunday to meet the people belonging to Haryana who have been rescued from various disaster-affected areas of Uttarakhand. Hooda has offered to adopt and rebuilt as many villages as the Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna would want.
He said that 50,000 blankets would be sent for people stranded at various place in Uttarakhand and out of these, 25,000 blankets have already been dispatched from Panipat, Haryana on Sunday. He said that buses of Haryana Roadways have been deployed to carry rescued persons from Dehradun, Rishikesh and Haridwar to their destinations free-of-cost.
“The Haryana Government would provide every possible help and resources needed for relief and rehabilitation of the victims of the worst-ever natural calamity, and also in rebuilding as many devastated villages as Bahuguna desires. We would also help in the reconstruction of temples and other structures,” Hooda assured Bahuguna whom he met in Dehradun on Sunday.