Date:28/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/28/stories/2008112856470400.htm

New Delhi

Donation for Bihar floods

New Delhi: Custom and excise officials have contributed Rs.44.5 lakh , their one day’s salary for the victims of the devastating floods in Bihar.

The sum was contributed by the Central Board of Excise Customs through the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund where the amount has been deposited. In August, the Kosi changed its course and burst its banks to submerge hundreds of villages in Bihar, leaving three million homeless.