Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Oct 1: The Punjab Government today said that it will help the flood ravaged people of the the State in maximum possible way even if it has to go beyond the call of duty.
Punjab Minister of Revenue and Public Relations, Bikramjeet Singh Majithia, told media persons here after inaugurating relief distribution camp at a Gurduwara in Baghat Barzulla locality of the Srinagar that “we will help the people and the Jammu and Kashmir Government in all possible ways. No discrimination will be displayed on the basis of caste and religion in distribution of relief and helping the flood affected people”.
He said the floods that devastated the state and the pain and trauma it inflicted on the psyche of the people is being felt across the country.
“All the country men feel the pain of the flood victims. And people in Punjab are set out to help people here,” he said, adding that his message to the people across the country would be to help the people as much as they can.
The Minister said when the floods struck the state, the first thing which the Punjab’s Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal said was to “provide food and shelter” to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Soon people from the Shiromani Gurduwara Parba-ndhak Committee started giving food to displaced people by cooking it in Langar (community kitchen),” he said.
Singh said the Punjab government was in constant touch with the Chief Minister of the state during flood and will help him in rehabilitation of the flood victims.
The Minster said about 13 truckloads of relief material sent by “like minded individuals” in Punjab reached the camp today and it was being distributed to people.
“Like-minded individuals like businessmen, educationists have donated the relief for the victims,” he said, adding demands of relief are coming from other areas of the state as well.
While the minister was distributing relief material like medicine, flour, rice, blankets, mineral water, pulses, women stood in long queues to collect it.
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