Excelsior Correspondent
NOWSHERA (RAJOURI), Sept 22: Rajiv Chuni, Chairman of SOS International – an organization for displaced persons from PoK, today asked Government to immediately constitute a Joint Committee comprising of members from all political parties, social & religious groups at local level for identifying the real deserving victims and the quantum of relief to be provided to each such victim.
He also demanded from the Government for providing immediately one forest tree free of cost at local level to the victims of flash floods or rains for making “Wooden Bhallas” out of this tree to rebuild their roof tops of partially or fully damaged dwellings. He urged administration to provide sufficient number of tents (not plastic tents) to these houseless victims till dwellings are not repaired or reconstructed.
Rajiv Chuni made this appeal during distribution of relief among the flood victims assembled at three different places of Mawa in Sunderbani, Lambheri in Nowshera and at Thakurdwara (Nowshera proper).
The relief material, collected by the volunteers of SOS International at their own from different individuals and associations of the State, included 400 blankets from Indian Society of Blood Transfusion & Immunohamatology (ISBTI) through Dr T R Raina, 300 blankets by the Vivekananda Medical Mission Charitable Hospital, Ambphala and 1200 packets containing food items through Ravi Puri, Secretary Regional Red Cross Society, Jammu.
The relief camp at Thakurdwara (Nowshera) was inaugurated by Sri-Sri 1008 Mahamandleshwar Santosh Dass Soni Ji Maharaj in the presence of Arshad Mehmood Sarpanch-Dandesar, Harbans Lal Sarpanch-Nonihal, Balwant Roy Sarpanch-Mangla Devi-A, Jas Pal Sarpanch-Deeing, Chaman Lal Sarpanch-Manghot, Inder Jeet Singh Sarpanch-Hanjara Thakra, Kashmir Singh Sarpanch-Dharat, Rattan Singh Sarpanch-Nonial Lower, Badri Nath Sarpanch-Kalsian, Paramjit Singh Sarpanch-Qila Darhal, Mohd. Iqbal Sarpanch-Rajal-B, Babu Ram Sharma Sarpanch-Rajal-A, Roshan Lal Sharma Sarpanch-Bhagnoti and others.
The relief material was distributed among 1200 worst flood affected families of Sunderbani, Nowshera, Kalakote and Rajouri areas who were identified and assembled by the Sarpanches and panches of the area.
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