Tarn Taran residents come to aid of flood-affected farmers

Local people are continuously coming forward to help flood-affected people in the district. The recent floods have not only damaged their property but also caused a huge financial loss to them. The floods have also caused damage to crops and other properties in the Mand area, downstream of the Harike Headworks.

Many families in the flood-affected areas have run out of ration and have no green and dry fodder to give to their animals. Sukhwant Singh Sandhu, Akali Dal leader and resident of Kot Budha village in the area, on Thursday dispatched 800 kits of relief material to the flood-affected people in collaboration with LIC (Life Insurance Company) HLF from his house.

These items included household ration, medical kits, animal fodder kits, etc. On the occasion, Shramik Bharti Project Director Varinder Pal Singh, Kuntal Kumar, LIC HFL Regional Manager, North India, and Program Manager Abhishek John Hazir, etc, were present. The organisation is continuously distributing relief materials to people of the village.

Leaders of farmer organisations associated with the United Kisan Morcha have demanded that the government must provide large machinery, tractors, petrol, etc, to clear 650 acres, belonging to more than 300 farmers of Kot Budha, of sand and silt deposited on their land.

Nachhattar Singh and other leaders of the morcha, said there has been a wave of help for the flood-affected people in the area. He has appealed to the government to help the affected people in these difficult times to sow their wheat crop.