Badal seeks directions from Centre for offering help to J&K flood victims in best possible manner

Chandigarh, September 11, 2014: The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today sought directions from Centre to offer all help and cooperation to the flood affected people of J&K state in the best possible manner after consulting its government, as the Punjab government was unable to contact with the higher authorities in valley due to telecom disruption in wake of recent flash floods.
In separate letters to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the Chief Minister asked the GoI to inform the Punjab Government about the nodal authorities to be contacted in this regard. He mentioned unprecedented calamity had struck Jammu & Kashmir last week, in which many precious lives had been lost in this worst ever catastrophe besides large number of people were rendered homeless. While the assessment of damage to individual property and vital infrastructure in the state would take some time; the Punjab Government was keen to render immediate assistance to the J&K Government in handling this grave situation by all means in terms of food article supplies, medicines, doctors, blankets, clothes or anything else the Government of J&K needed.
Badal said, “My heart goes out for the people of J&K who have suffered this disaster. The people of Punjab and my government share the grief with the people of J&K and express complete solidarity with them in this hour of crisis.”  
Badal also apprised the Centre that he had personally urged the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) to send food articles to J&K.

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