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RSS to collect Rs 75 crore for state quake-affected Thursday, February 22, 2001

AHMEDABAD: Prant Karyavah of the state chapter of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Pravin Maniar, on Tuesday, announced that branches of the organisation in the country and abroad would collect around Rs 75 crore for earthquake victims of Kutch and Saurashtra.

Speaking to reporters here, Maniar said the sangh workers all over the state were among the first to launch rescue and relief operations in Bhuj and Ahmedabad on the Republic Day. Even now more than 25,000 workers were actively assisting authorities in relief and rehabilitation in Bhuj, Bhachau,Anjar and Rapar besides other places in Jamnagar, Surendranagar and Rajkot districts.

The Sangh has approved designs of small houses to be built out of Rs 3 crore collected from workers in Gujarat and other states. small houses will be constructed in 25 villages to be adopted by the RSS in Kutch and Saurashtra.

The sangh has plans to construct community halls in 100 villages and set up primary schools in 50 villages. The medical unit of the sangh will soon press into service eight mobile dispensaries in the quake-hit areas.

Volunteers of Kutch district have been asked to set up a make-shift hospital with 30 beds in Bhachau. This hospital will be run for about five months. The workers have also offered to provide free boarding and lodging to those students of the SSC and HSC who have lost their houses.

Some teams of the RSS workers have reached interiors of the quake-hit areas where they will organise cultural programmes and sports to entertain people living in a state of trauma.

The sangh has received tremendous response from shakhas in Maharashtra and Rajasthan as several workers have offered services in rehabilitation of the 229 villages destroyed in the earthquake.

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