Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 7: Shri Chander Chinar Bada Akhara Udasin Trust (SCCBAUT) will continue rehabilitation work in the current financial year.
In a joint statement issued by Secretary of the trust Swami Prem Vivekanand, Swami Amritdass and Dr Gautam Mengi, Trustees, said that during floods in the month of September 2014 at Srinagar, around 20 persons whose houses completely collapsed or badly damaged were provided assistant of approximately Rs 4 lakh.
They stated that the officials of the trust personally visited the far-flung places and distributed 1000 school bags and 1500 kangris among flood victims, adding that 15 new wooden carts along with weighing scales were also provided to fruit vendors in Chander Chinar Udasin Ashram premises.
“The trust waived off two months rent of 59 tenants of Trust, whose shops located on the ground floor were flooded”, they said, adding that Chinar trust provided lodging and food to 68 doctors and other volunteers during medical camps set up by Sewa Bharti in flood hit areas of Srinagar.
They further stated that the Trust organized regular medical camps where more than 1000 patients were treated and free medicines were distributed amongst the needy.
The trust also donated an ambulance to Sewa Bharti for relief purpose, they said, adding that a donation of Rs 50,000 was given for the repair and renovation of Shafaqat Voluntary Medicare Society, Bemina, Srinagar.
They said that trust also made donation to seven informal education centres and three vocational centres, J&K Sahayta Samiti, adding that more than 200 woolen blankets were distributed amongst the needy.
A total of around Rs 28.50 lakh was spent by the trust during the relief and rehabilitation work in the J&K, mostly in Kashmir Valley, they added.
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