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Clinton meets govt officials, takes stock Thursday, April 5, 2001

AHMEDABAD: Former US president Bill Clinton on Thursday held meetings with representatives of the Gujarat government and NGOs and took stock of the quake-ravaged state.

Clinton, who visited the worst-affected Kutch district on Wednesday, held an interactive session with NGOs for about two hours on ways to utilise the money raised by the American-Indian Foundation (AIF), which he heads.

Later, Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel made a presentation to Clinton, who is heading a 40-member AIF delegation.

Clinton said on Wednesday that the AIF planned to come out with a focused strategy aimed at among other things providing education to child and employment to the jobless.

There was chaos outside Hotel Taj Residency Ummed, the venue of the meeting, as a large number of journalists representing international, national and local media were prevented from covering the function and made to stand outside for hours.

Agitated mediapersons gheraoed state home minister Harin Pandya, who expressed helplessnes saying only AIF was authorised to allow the media inside.

 

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