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Rajasthan to open relief camps in Tamil Nadu

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, JAN. 5. The Rajasthan Government has decided to start relief camps in the tsunami-affected coastal regions in the southern States to provide help to those who have lost their means of livelihood. A delegation comprising several members of the State Cabinet and legislators will shortly leave for Tamil Nadu to lend a helping hand to the affected people.

The relief camps will be run under the supervision of Ministers from the State. The delegation will establish contact with various organisations of Rajasthanis settled in the region and provide relief to the victims of the calamity in every possible manner. In the first phase, the State Government proposes to spend Rs. 14 crores on extending the relief. The Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, said at a meeting convened here on Monday to discuss the modalities of providing assistance that apart from the distribution of relief material, assets of permanent nature would also be created in the affected areas to benefit the local population. A truck carrying medicines worth Rs. 10 lakhs, provided by the Chief Minister's Relief Fund, left here on Tuesday for Chennai. A team of 51 doctors, led by the Medical and Health Minister, Digambar Singh, has also left for Tamil Nadu to make contribution to the health care efforts in the affected areas. The meeting was informed that relatives of 54 persons from Rajasthan, who were living in southern States and whose whereabouts were not yet known, had approached the control room established here by the State Government. The control room got in touch with the authorities in the affected regions and passed on the information about the well-being of 20 persons.

Ms. Raje said the relief camp in Tamil Nadu would be organised in the first phase till January 17. The Relief Minister, Kirorilal Meena, the Public Works Department Minister, Rajendra Singh Rathore, and BJP MPs, Subhash Maharia, Pushp Jain and Srichand Kriplani, will be present on different dates.

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