December 2,
2017
Aid from
India reached Hindu families in Maungtaw yesterday who are currently being
sheltered at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Sittway.
The
chairman and members of the committee in charge of aud to IDPs delivered the
supplies to 155 Hindu families at the camp established at the Danyawady Sports
Ground.
The aid
distributed to the families includes 155 family beds, soap, biscuits, cooking
oil and, 156 mats given by private donors. The humanitarian aid from India
arrived in Yangon on a cargo ship on 25th November. The Indian Ambassador to
Myanmar Mr. Vikram Misri handed over a relief consignment of 3,000 family bags
for Rakhine State to Dr. Ko Ko Naing, Director-General of the Relief and
Resettlement Department of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and
Resettlement. “We will transfer the aid to the Rakhine State Government as soon
as possible, and they will deliver the aid to the people without
discrimination,” said Dr Ko Ko Naing. The 3,000 family bags worth 4 million
Indian rupees includes rice, cooking oil, salt, dried noodles, biscuits, peas,
mosquito nets and soap. The people of India previously donated aid to the
people in Rakhine in 2015, 2016 and on 6th June 2017.
Tin Tun
(IPRD)
Ref; The
Global New Light of Myanmar
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