Relief  Work : A  Brief  Report  As  ON  31 JANUARY 2012

1.     Winter Relief: 21,373 blankets were distributed through the following centres to poor people:

In India: Aalo – 500, Baghbazar – 880, Bankura – 250, Barasat – 250, Bhubaneswar – 502, Chandigarh – 250, Chandipur – 250, Cherrapunjee – 2100, Coimbatore Mission – 350, Cooch Behar – 270, Delhi – 847, Deoghar – 1000, Ghatshila – 250, Ichapur – 2000, Jamshedpur – 410, Jayrambati – 1500, Karimganj – 300, Khetri – 39, Koalpara – 400, Limbdi – 250, Malda – 250, Manasadwip – 250, Medinipur – 500, Muzaffarpur – 250, Puri Math – 500, Purulia – 250, Rahara – 420, Ranchi Morabadi – 254, Ranchi Sanatorium – 270, Shyamla Tal – 247, Silchar – 3534, Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House – 2000;

In Bangladesh: Faridpur – 50.

Besides, our Baghbazar and Rahara centres distributed respectively 610 and 150 warm chadars to poor and needy people.

2.  Fire Relief: Our Gol Park centre served cooked food (khichdi) and distributed 150 blankets, 100 saris, 150 lungis, 77 vests, 12 sets of children garments, 10 sweaters, etc among 83 families whose huts had been gutted by a devastating fire in Kalikapur area, near E M Bypass, Kolkata.

3.  Flood Relief: (i) Fiji:  In the wake of the recent floods in Nadi (Fiji), our Nadi centre started primary relief work by distributing cooked food among the affected families.

     (ii) India: Odisha: Continuing its flood relief operations, our Bhubaneswar centre distributed 425 sets of study material (each set containing 1 school bag, 1 notebook, 1 pen, 1 pencil, 1 scale and 1 value education book) among 425 needy students belonging to flood-affected families in Tigiria block of Cuttack district from 18 to 20 January.

4.  Cyclone Relief: Tamil Nadu: Our Chennai Math centre served cooked food to 2800 victims of the devastating cyclone ‘Thane’ on 30 December, the day on which it had struck north coastal Tamil Nadu.

5.  Distress Relief: The following centres distributed various items, shown in brackets, to needy people:

In India: Baranagar Mission (250 saris); Cherrapunjee (501 saris); Ghatshila (175 mosquito-nets), Ichapur (45 pants, 716 sets of children garments); Jamshedpur (4000 kg rice, 800 kg dal, 400 litres of edible oil); Jayrambati (2500 saris); Koalpara (900 saris); Medinipur (100 saris, 35 dhotis); Rahara (150 saris, 199 mosquito-nets, 196 frocks, 100 pants, 100 shirts, 2 sets of school uniforms, 2 school bags, 300 bars of bathing soap, 55 litres of coconut oil, 30 kg baby food, 12 cycle rickshaws, 12 sewing machines, 15 bicycles); Ranchi Sanatorium (2000 bed sheets); Sargachhi (50 mosquito-nets);

In Bangladesh: Faridpur (130 vests, stationery items to needy students).

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