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Gujarat NGOs to set up information centres

By Our Special Correspondent

BHUJ, JAN. 8. A team of the Kutch Navnirman Abhiyan, an umbrella organisation of 27 voluntary bodies in Gujarat, has reached Nagapattinam, the worst tsunami-hit district of Tamil Nadu, to assist the local authorities in the relief and rehabilitation of the affected persons.

A spokesman of the Abhiyan said here today that the team was requested to render assistance in the affected areas by the Tamil Nadu Information Technology Department Secretary, who has been appointed by the State Government as NGO co-ordinator.

The Abhiyan, set up after a cyclone struck the Kandla port in 1998, was active in rehabilitating the affected in the January 2001 earthquake that ravaged Kutch and other parts of Gujarat.

The spokesman said the team had established contact with the Nagapattinam-based NGOs, including Sneha and the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies, to assess the situation and the needs of the affected to plan immediate and long-term support system for relief and rehabilitation. To begin with, it has planned to facilitate the setting up of village-level information centres in 45 affected villages to act as a bridge between the affected communities, the Government and the NGOs and to work for interim provision of housing to the affected families by supporting them with materials as it had done in Kutch.

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