Date:02/01/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/01/02/stories/2005010215350500.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Many chip in with aid for tsunami-hit people

By Our Staff Reporter

DO YOUR BIT: An automobile engineer was seen seeking donations for the tsunami-hit people at the Visveswarayya flyover on Saturday. - Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

HYDERABAD, JAN. 1. The Facor Alloys Limited on Thursday presented a cheque of Rs.10 lakhs to the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, for taking up relief operations for the tsunami victims in the coastal areas. GATI will supply clothes, food and other relief material free of cost in its cargo ships from Chennai to Port Blair. The Nirdosh social service society is sending a team comprising doctors, paramedical staff and volunteers to the affected areas. They too will carry food and clothes.

Cloth boxes

The Shopper's Stop, in association with Red Cross has started a clothes collection drive for the victims. Clothes collection boxes will be placed at all Shopper's Stop stores across the country from January 1 to 10.

The staff of Presidency Degree College will contribute a day's salary, according to a press release.

Employees of city-based Progressive Constructions too will donate a day's salary, amounting to Rs.1.50 lakhs, to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund, Ashok Tatineni, Executive Director, said in a press release on Saturday.

The staff of the Non-Conventional Energy Development Corporation of AP Ltd contributed a day's salary. A cheque for Rs. 1,00,175 was handed over to the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, here on Saturday, according to the Managing Director, S.E.Sekhar Babu.

Donations pour in

G.V.Venugopal Sarma, National Institute of Rural Development financial adviser, today handed over a draft for Rs.1.75 lakhs to the Union Minister of State for Rural Development, A. Narendra.

The institute's employees donated a day's salary to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. D. Sudheer Reddy, chairman, G. Ashok Kumar, vice chairman, HUDA and representatives of employees union met the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasehkhar Reddy, on Saturday and handed over a cheque of Rs. 1.25 lakh to the CM's relief fund.