Mangalore: Flood Relief - DC Expects Rs. 1 Crore from District
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MANGALORE, Oct 7: The district administration has set up six centres in Dakshina Kannada for collecting material for the flood-affected people of north Karnataka, Deputy Commissioner V. Ponnuraj said at a meeting of social activists, corporate representatives and officials here on Monday.
Donations could be made at the Mangalore City Corporation office in Lalbagh, the Red Cross centre at the Deputy Commissioner’s office and at taluk offices across the district, he said.
Ponnuraj said that he had been told by the Deputy Commissioners of the affected districts that more than cash and food, there was an acute shortage of clothes and cooking utensils in the affected areas.
M.N. Vidyashankar, in-charge Secretary of the State, said that donations through cheques should be addressed to Chief Minister’s Relief Fund and not Prime Minister’s Relief Fund.
Ponnuraj said that deadline for sending donations was October 15 and for relief materials it was October 7. Replying to a question, Ponnuraj said that every consignment of relief materials to the affected areas should be handed over by a representative of the social organisation to the district administration there. Officials there would acknowledge the receipt of the consignment through the volunteer, he said and added that he was expecting to contribute Rs. 1 crore from the district.
The Kanara Chambers of Commerce and Industry promised to raise Rs. 10 lakh as donations. Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd said that its employees would donate one day’s salary for the relief operation. The District Youth Congress has donated Rs. 10,000, and on Tuesday, the Congress workers would conduct a donation collection march in Pandeshwara and Bunder areas. The Kalkura Foundation has also set up a collection centre at the Besant Complex on Mahatma Gandhi Road here.
Mangalore: Donations for Flood Relief Pour In; Dr Heggade, MRPL, Lead the Way
Dr D Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of Dharmastala Temple, in a press release, announced help of Rs 10 crore in building 1,000 houses for the victims in the flood-affected areas.
The press release by the temple management stated that this would benefit flood victims in Bijapur, Koppal, and Raichur districts. The amount will be increased after consulting the rural development project officers in a special meeting in Dharwad on Thursday October 8.
Besides this, as per directions from Dr Heggade, the organization plans to send five lac ‘rotis’ for flood victims of which two lac rotis collected from Dharwad, Haveri, and Gadag districts have been dispatched to the places in need.
MRPL Donation
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) handed over a cheque of Rs 50 lac to deputy commissioner (DC) V Ponnuraj on Tuesday October 6, towards the flood relief fund.
Deputy general manager (refinery in-charge) C Upadhyaya handed over the cheque to the DC. General manager (human relations) Manjusha Bhatnagar, deputy general manager ( finance) Raveendra, and deputy general manager Laxmi Kumaran were present.
Meanwhile, A G Pai, chief operating officer, Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ), announced that his organization will contribute Rs 5 lac for flood relief.