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By Our Special Correspondent
BANGALORE, JAN. 8. The Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME) has sent a team of 17 students for relief work in the tsunami-hit areas, along with members of the Association for India's Development (AID India), a voluntary organisation. Nine students are working in two villages near Velankanni, adopted by AID. Other students are working in the AID office in Chennai. They are involved in fund raising, packing and distribution of relief material. The institute has decided to adopt some affected children.
Donations
The GMR Group of Companies has donated Rs. 20 lakhs each to the tsunami relief funds of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. The group has distributed clothes and food items worth Rs. 4 lakhs in parts of Chennai. The employees of the group have donated a day's salary each amounting to Rs. 6.2 lakhs towards the relief funds, according to a press release. The Karnataka State branch of the Indian Red Cross Society has sent relief material worth Rs. 13.59 lakhs to Cuddalore and Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu and Port Blair. D.M. Nanjundappa, Vice-Chairman, told presspersons that material worth Rs. 8 lakhs, including 10 quintals of rice, 10,000 litres of bottled water and medicines, was sent to Cuddalore and Nagapattinam and the rest to Port Blair, in several consignments from December 28 to January 4. The Prasanna Trust under the guidance of Swami Sukhabodhananda organised a prayer meeting at the Nirguna Mandir here on Friday. The gathering pledged support for the victims of tsunami. Members of the trust offered to adopt 11 girls, who will be looked after at Prasanna Jyothi, a home for homeless children being run by it. Inmates of prisons in Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Mysore, Bidar, Shimoga, Mangalore, Raichur, Mandya, Dharwad, Hassan and Davangere have come forward to donate their wages and the money saved by foregoing "special meals" for two to 12 weeks to the tsunami relief fund. The contributions will come to Rs. 10 lakhs, according to the Director General Police and Inspector General of Prisons, B.S. Sial.
In Hubli
Relief material collected from the employees of the Hubli Division of South Western Railway, by the Bharat Scouts and Guides was despatched through a special coach attached to the Hubli-Bangalore passenger train on Friday. K.D. Mainrai, Divisional Railway Manager, flagged off the train. The material included 20 quintals of rice, 100 kg of edible oil, 1,000 biscuit packets, 20 cans of water, blankets, soaps, vessels and mugs. A team of 15 scouts and guides led by Prem Nath, Scouting in-charge of Hubli Division, has been sent to distribute relief material, according to a press note.
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