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Wednesday, Dec 29, 2004

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Assistance aplenty from various quarters

By Our Staff Reporter

COIMBATORE, DEC. 28 . Even as the administrative machinery is working hard to bring relief to tsunami victims, contributions keep pouring in from various quarters.

The Coimbatore Jewellers' Association has contributed Rs. 1.35 lakhs towards the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund. The Bharathiar University Non Teaching Staff Association observed a two-minute silence to condole the deaths, and would donate a day's salary for the relief fund.

The Coimbatore East Constituency MLA, V.K. Lakshmanan has sent a demand draft for Rs. 12,000 (a month's salary) towards the relief fund to the State Congress president, G.K. Vasan, a release said. The Tamil Nadu Industrial Training Officials Association, the National Cement Workers Union, INTUC, ATP, AITUC, LPF and CITU would also donate one day's pay.

A day's pay

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), District Secretary, P.R. Natarajan, said that the party would raise funds on December 29, 30 and 31 to be handed over to the State secretary at the Coimbatore West District Conference scheduled for January 2, 2005.

The Hindu Mazdoor Sabha has urged its unions in various industrial establishments to donate one day's salary for the relief funds. The Akhila Bharatha Ayyappa Seva Sangham, general secretary, N. Sreenivasan, has said that the Sangham has directed the district units to despatch its volunteers to tsunami-hit areas.

Over 16,000 employees attached to 14 unions of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) would give a day's pay totalling Rs. 41 lakhs towards the relief funds.

The Lakshmi Machine Works Limited has donated Rs. 3 lakhs drawn in favour of AIM for Seva movement of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam to distribute food packets twice a day for 5,000 people for three days. It would provide two trucks free of cost to take materials to the base camp of the movement at Nagapattinam. The employees have donated used clothes, and a volunteer force would join in the relief and rescue measures.

Old clothes

The Coimbatore Press Club received a lot of old clothes to be transported free of cost by Professional Couriers to Nagapattinam and Cuddalore districts. The demand drafts, the Club received, would be handed over to the Collector.

The Tamil Nadu Revenue Officials Association (TNROA) has announced that its members would donate a day's pay. TNROA would mobilise bedsheets, mats and clothes for the victims. As an initial payment, a demand draft of Rs. 5,000 was handed over to the Collector today.

The relief fund contributions at the Collectorate crossed Rs. 6 lakhs, the officials said. The demand drafts should be drawn in favour of `Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund', the Collector, S. Kosalaraman, said.

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