Sukhbir asks DSGMC and SGPC to airlift 25,000 food packets every day to Kathmandu to provide succour to earthquake victims
Author(s): City Air NewsChandigarh, April 26, 2015: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today directed the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managing Committee (DSGMC) and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to start...
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Apr 26, 2015 09:30
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Chandigarh, April 26, 2015: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today directed the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managing Committee (DSGMC) and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to start air lifting of 25,000 food packets to Kathmandu every day from tomorrowbesides making arrangements to prepare and distribute "langar" in Nepal to provide succour to earthquake victims.
Following this direction, the DSGMC held an emergency meeting today under the presidentship of Manjit Singh GK. Langar preparations have already started at Gurdwara Bangla Sahab in Delhi and the first consignment of 25,000 packets of "langar" will be air lifted to Kathmandu by the IAF tomorrow morning. Senior akali leader Omkar Singh Thapar has been assigned the responsibility of leading the first consignment of relief to Nepal.
Sukhbir Badal has also asked the DSGMC and the SGPC to pool resources to prepare langar for 10,000 people at Kathmandu till such time it is required. He disclosed that he would himself coordinate with the IAF to ensure the relief operation to prepare langar for such a large number of people could be executed quickly.
Meanwhile, Manjit G K disclosed that arrangements had been made to deliver the food packets to the IAF at Palam airport. He said IAF would also be requested to make arrangements to air lift 10 tonnes of raw material to Kathmandu for preparation of fresh langar. He said 20 volunteers and around the same number of cooks would also be airlifted to Kathmandu to operationalise the langar. G K said the langar would be started at a central place in Kathmandu in consultation with the Nepalese government.
The SAD president said the SAD would also coordinate with the Nepalese government to find out if there were any other requirements. He said if there was a demand for dry ration including milk powder and biscuits or clothes and tents, the same would also be sent to Nepal at the earliest.
Badal said this gesture on behalf of the SAD was in league with the motto of "Sarbat da bhalla" as propounded by the great gurus. "Sikhs and Punjabis have always been at the forefront in providing succour in times of natural calamities be it the recent floods in Kashmir or those in Uttarakhand earlier. Even this time we will do our best to mitigate the sorrows of our Nepali brethren", he added.
Date:
Sunday, April 26, 2015
