SGPC are running relief camps in the valley for affected people
An Indian army soldier distributes sweets to children at a relief camp in Salehar village, about 40 kilometers south of Jammu, India, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Residents along the India-Pakistan border area have taken shelter in relief camps after
Chandigarh: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has stepped up efforts to provide succour to the flood-affected people of Jammu and Kashmir and so far over 120 quintals of food material have been airlifted while a relief camp has been set up in Srinagar.
“Till Wednesday, 120 quintals of foodgrains had been airlifted to Kashmir from Amritsar. Relief camps have been set up at three places in Kashmir including at Gurudwara Shri Chatti Patshahi, Srinagar,” said SGPC General Secretary Sukhdev Singh Bhaur.
He said that many of these people being rescued by the Army and other agencies are being brought to the relief camps being run by the SGPC, the apex religious body of the Sikhs.
The SGPC had also sent its two teams to Jammu and Kashmir for launching further relief operations.
“We are distributing food through Langars (community kitchens) to the affected people of valley. We have dispatched food material including rice, cooking oil, cereals, sugar, ghee, salt, tea and other essential items,” he said, adding blankets had also been sent.
The relief material would be sent on a daily basis till normalcy is restored in the valley, he said.
( Source : PTI )
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