Siliguri Mayor to lend a helping hand to Bihar flood victims

Mayor to lend a helping hand to Bihar flood victims

Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, Oct. 14: Siliguri mayor Mr Bikash Ghosh is leaving for Patna tomorrow to handover rupees nine-lakh contribution to the Bihar chief minister Mr Nitish Kumar towards the relief and rehabilitation of the recent flood victims in Bihar.
The mayor is scheduled to handover the amount to the Bihar CM at the state secretariat in Patna on Friday, 17 October.
The rupees nine-lakh that the Siliguri mayor is set to contribute for the Bihar flood victims has been accumulated by the Siliguri Municipal Corporation through donations from different walks of the society in Siliguri. SMC's own contribution to the relief fund is rupees one lakh.
It may be noted that, responding to a SMC call, the former Indian captain cricket-star Mr Sourav Ganguly had initiated the fundraising programme for the Bihar flood victims in Siliguri on 13 September.
After that through the last one-month, several individuals and organisations came forward with their contributions for the Bihar flood victims accounting the total contributions at rupees nine-lakh.
"We have received donations starting from Re 1 to Rs 1-lakh and more. Siliguri Municipal Corporation is grateful to the public for the overwhelmed response," the mayor Mr Ghosh said the Press in Siliguri today.
This is for the second time in the recent years that the Siliguri Municipal Corporation has organised such a relief fund towards the rehabilitation of victims of natural calamity in some other state. In 2004, the SMC had raised and contributed Rs 76-lakh for the Tsunami victims of Tamil Nadu and Anadaman & Nicobar Islands

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