Chandigarh, August 21, 2019 (Yes Punjab News)
Union food processing industries minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today announced that food processing companies had responded generously to her appeal to donate dry ration for flood stricken people of Punjab and that the same would be distributed among the affected people in the coming days.
In a statement here, the union minister while thanking food companies for this noble gesture, also appealed to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) workers as well as volunteers at large to assist her in distribution of the relief material.
She also urged people to assist her in identifying the worst affected places so that relief work could be prioritized accordingly. “Volunteers can share such locations with me”, she said adding she would personally supervise the distribution of the relief material in the next few days.
Mrs Badal said she had received widespread complaints from the people that though flood waters had destroyed thousands of acres of paddy crop and even damaging houses in entire villages in parts of Ropar and Anandpur Sahib besides Sultanpur Lodhi, Shahkot and Phillaur appropriate relief had not reached the affected people.
“Keeping in view this sentiment I approached several food processing companies and they have donated dry ration including milk powder, biscuits, ready to eat snacks as well as one lakh liters of beverages and bottled water. The relief will be dispatched in trucks to the worst affected areas in the coming days”, she added.
