Hry Khap panchayats mobilise relief for Punjab flood victims

Jind: Several villages, khap panchayats, and farmers' organisations in Haryana have stepped forward to help flood-affected people in Punjab. Public announcements are being made in villages, urging residents to arrange food grains for the affected families and fodder for their livestock.In this spirit, the Nau Gama Khap of Jind has ordered public announcements in all 21 villages under its jurisdiction, calling for collective aid. Khap chief Suresh Bahbalpur has issued letters to sarpanches and prominent villagers, appealing to them to gather food grains and straw from their respective villages and send them on tractors or canters to support flood-hit brothers and sisters in Punjab. "Food donation is the greatest donation. The initiative has already been set in motion by the khap villages including Rajpura Bhain, Jalalpura Kala, and Ramgarh," reads the letter's appeal.Additionally, Ujhana village, located near the Khanauri border in Punjab, has already supplied about 200 quintals of wheat. In Danoda Kalan village of Narwana, youths are collecting food grain door-to-door, which is then being transported to Punjab in tractor trolleys. The people of Gurthali village have also gathered ration supplies and food grains to send as relief aid to Punjab. Villages are appealing that whenever Haryana faces a crisis, Punjab is the first to stand with them. Now is the time for Haryana to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Punjab. This heartfelt appeal has inspired many more villages to come forward with relief materials. A meeting of prominent villagers was held at the Shiv Mandir in Dumrakha Kalan village in Jind, where they said that several districts of Punjab have been affected by floods, and in such times, it is our duty to extend maximum help. It was decided that Rs 500 per family would be collected. With this amount, drinking water, medicines, mosquito nets, dry ration, and fodder for livestock will be arranged and delivered. An advance team has already gone from the village to assess where the need is greatest.In Karsindhu alone, villagers collected 450 litres of mustard oil, 250 quintals of wheat, 50 sacks of flour, 125 kilograms of pulses, 20 sacks of sugar, 10 tractor-trolleys of fodder for livestock, 100 boxes of bottled water, along with kitchen supplies and biscuits. All of this will be sent to the flood victims.Talking to TOI, Azad Palwa, a Jind-based farmer unionist, stated, "We are standing firmly with our elder brother Punjab, and people are sending help at their own level. People from Kar Sindhu, Kabarcha, Sudkain Khurd, Gasho Khurd, Dhakal, Khatkar, Chattar, Dumarkhan Kalan, and many other villages of Jind district have been sending good items and grain to Gurdwaras," he added. MSID: 123657956 413 |