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State to give Rs. 20 cr. to Prime Minister's Relief Fund

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, DEC. 31. The State Government will contribute Rs. 20 crores to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund and send 100 tonnes of relief material to Andamans and Nicobar Islands.

Responding to the call given by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, the Chief Minister, Mr. N. Dharam Singh, who chaired a high-level meeting on Friday, announced a massive humanitarian package for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the devastated Andamans and Nicobar Islands.

The Indian Air Force will carry the first consignment of relief material of 25 tonnes on Saturday and another 25 tonnes on Sunday.

The relief material include 15 tonnes of bottles of drinking water provided by the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, 14 tonnes of toilet and detergent soaps, donated by Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Ltd., bed sheets, dhotis, and saris, 25,000 numbers each given by Karnataka Handicrafts Development Corporation, eight tonnes of biscuits collected by the Department of Revenue, milk powder by the Karnataka State Milk Producers Cooperative Federation, 25 tonnes of wheat flour, rice, onion and potato contributed by the Department of Agricultural Marketing, five tonnes of sugar by the Directorate of Sugars, 10 tonnes of edible oil, as many as 10,000 numbers of torch, 10 pumpsets and 10 diesel generators.Mr. Dharam Singh told presspersons after the meeting in the morning that the meeting discussed various modes of transporting relief material to the tsunami-ravaged States.Earlier, the Chief Minister participated in a programme organised by the Adijagadguru Sri Shivarathreshwara Bhagavadpadara 1045th Jayanti Mahotsava Samiti at the Central College Cricket Grounds here and lauded the commitment of Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji of Suttur Mutt to help the tsuami-affected people.

Jayanti cancelled

Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji said that the 1045th Jayanti of Adijagadguru Sri Shivarathreshwara Swamji had been cancelled following the catastrophe in Asia. The jayanti was scheduled to be held from January 9 to 15. It will be organised in December 2005. Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji gave a cheque for Rs. 1,00,001 to Mr. Dharam Singh towards relief of the affected people. The volunteers of the Jayanti Mahotsava Samiti headed by the MLA, V. Somanna, will tour Cuddalore and distribute foodgrains and clothes worth Rs. 8 lakhs to the people. The volunteers will distribute two lakh chapathis, three lorry loads of rice, one lorry load of clothes, water, and utensils, he said.

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