Even as the toll of rain water is unfolding in the southern city of Chennai, largest framers’ cooperative IFFCO has pitched in with its support through men and money. It is providing relief materials of Rs 1 rore for the flood victims in Tamil Nadu and has geared up its local office to relief work.
Announcing this IFFCO Managing Director Dr U S Awasthi tweeted “#IFFCO is to provide relief material worth Rs 1cr to Tamil Nadu flood victims. “
Relief materials are being distributed by the Tamil Nadu unit of IFFCO by involving cooperatives. Coimbatore based IFFCO delegate Ramachandran phoned Indian Cooperative lauding the intervention of IFFCO MD Dr Awasthi in the matter.
“I talked to MD Saheb in the morning and he promised to help without losing a moment”, Ramachandran added. IFFCO has its state unit based in Chennai and it has also several co-operative societies in the state as its member-societies. They are proving handy in its efforts to help the victims, said a source.
Meanwhile NDRF has rescued more than 10,000 people. It has sent 20 more teams from various locations to Tamil Nadu.
More than 260 people have died in the floods in the state after the heaviest rainfall in a century. A depression in the Bay of Bengal has triggered rains in coastal areas.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced immediate release of Rs 1,000 crore for relief and rehabilitation works in Tamil Nadu. This will be in addition to Rs 940 crore released earlier by the Centre.
Readers would recall that earlier IFFCO had provided relief materials to the Nepal earthquake victims.