Jaipur/ In a significant humanitarian gesture, the Lupin Human Welfare and Research Foundation has started a relief camp for helping out the victims of floods and landslide in Uttarkhand at Bhadrakali on the Chardham Yatra route. Arrangements have been made for supply of breakfast, medical assistance and the facility for contacting relatives on mobile phone free of cost at the camp. The Lupin HW&R Foundation’s Executive Director, Mr. Sita Ram Gupta, said here today that this was the first camp launched in the region affected by the unprecedented natural calamity. Another camp will be started shortly for the benefit of the pilgrims returning from Kedarnath and Bardinath affected by the catastrophe.
The Lupin HW&R Foundation, which has been working for socio-economic development of marginalized sections of population in Bharatpur district for the last two decades, has sanctioned Rs. 5 lakhs as an emergency expenditure for organizing the relief camps. The local villagers have also extended a helping hand for organizing the camps. Each of the camps has 50 volunteers who are providing food and other essential items to the victims reaching there. Mr. Gupta said the Foundation would also pay bus and train fare to the passengers who have lost everything in the disaster and have no means to return home. Food packets were distributed to about 1,500 persons till yesterday afternoon at the Bhadrakali camp. The Foundation is sending the in-charge of its Bhopal office, Mr. Devendra Singh Bhadoria, to Rishikesh for better management of camps. Mr. Gupta said he himself would also leave shortly for Rishikesh to look after the arrangements in the camps.
Kalyan Singh Kothari, Media Consultant, Mobile: 9414047744