Nawalparasi raises relief aid including cash and kind
Parasi, May 12, Cash around Rs 5 million and relief assistance worth Rs 20
million have been raised in Nawalparasi to aid for the survivors of devastating
April 25 earthquake.The assistance amount collected from different
organizations would be deposited to the Prime Minister Natural Disaster Relief
Fund, said the District Natural Disaster Relief Committee.
Meanwhile, relief
assistance worth Rs 20 million collected in the district was dispatched to
quake-affected sites. Ther relief materials including tarpaulin sheets,
clothes, medicines and other food items collected from the organizations were
sent to different quake-hit districts, said the Committee. Similarly, the
relief materials worth around Rs 2.5 million collected by Nawalparasi Chamber
of Commerce and Industry were sent to quake-ravaged areas.
The relief
amassed within a weeklong aid collection campaign led by the Nawalparasi
Chamber of Commerce was sent to the quake survivors through FNCCI, shared
Association Chairperson Bhim Bahadur Thapa. Likewise, the tarpaulin sheets and
foodstuffs worth Rs 1 million raised by all brick kiln entrepreneurs of the
district were distributed to quake-hit people in Dhading district, said Brick
Kiln Entrepreneurs Association Chairperson Krishna Shrestha.