Relief for Kerala continues to flow from T

Relief was continuing to flow from Telangana to the flood hit Kerala as people from different sections were coming forward to contribute their bit to the Chief Minister’s relief fund.

While a constable of Hyderabad police donated his entire one month salary of Rs 68,000, 34 members of Telangana legislative Council have also contributed their one months salary for the relief work. Meanwhile the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has sent a consignment of medicines worth Rs 25 lakh to Kerala.

Police constable of Charminar police station in Hyderabad Tudi Raju handover his one month salary to the Police inspector K Chandrasekhar Reddy to be sent to Kerala.

33 MLCs of ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti and one of the BJP have donated their one month salary. Government Chief Whip Sudhakar Reddy and whip B Venkateshwarulu and MLC Srinivas Reddy met the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and handed over the cheque to him.

Meanwhile Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen President Asaduddin Owaisi said that medicines worth Rs 25 lakh were being sent to Kerala as there were fears of outbreak of epidemic as the flood water was receding. The medicines were being sent on behalf of the Owaisi Group of Hospitals headed by Akbarudidn Owaisi, he said. MIM has already sent donation of Rs 16 lakh to Kerala CM’s relief fund.

Addressing a meeting of party leaders and workers Owaisi demanded that the Centre should immediately release an assistance of Rs 20,000 crore to Kerala in view of the widespread destruction.  Pointing out that four hundred people had died, one lakh houses were destroyed, 11 lakh people were rendered homless and 10,000 kms long roads were damaged, Owaisi said, “announcement of mere Rs 600 crore assistance by the Prime Minister is highly inadequate. He regretted that the Centre was neither willing to accept the offer of assistance by the United Arab Emirates nor it was ready to provide its own help to the State. “if they feel that the UAE assistance will hurt their ego the Centre should provide immediate assistance of Rs 2,000 crore”.

Rejecting Centre’s stand that it can not accept the foreign assistance he said that there was provision in the law that in emergency situation foreign funds can be accepted.

Owaisi said that last year India had received foreign exchange of 59 million dollars and 40 per cent of it was sent by the Kerala migrants.

Similarly he said during 2015 Kerala migrants had sent Rs 1 lakh crore to India and UAE was the number one among the ten countries from where India receives the highest amount of foreign exchange. Kerala gets the biggest share of it followed by Hyderabad and Gujarat. “Even then injustice was being done to Kerala”, he said.

Meanwhile the State public sector undertaking Singareni Collieries Limited has also sent a medical team along with a fully equipped ambulance and a rescue team to Kerala. The rescue team had 18 members and the medical team has 3 doctors and five support staff. They have taken surgical equipment,  medicine and dressing material with them.