Nepal quake: Gujarat cabinet, BJP MLAs to donate month's salary

April 29, 2015 23:01

BJP ministers including Chief Minister Anandiben Patel and party MLAs will donate a month's salary to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund for the victims of the Nepal earthquake.

Chief Minister, ministers, state Assembly Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Chief Whips of the BJP will donate Rs 65,000 each while ruling party MLAs will donate Rs 55,000 each for the quake victims of Nepal, state health minister and spokesperson Nitin Patel said. "The donations, total of which comes to Rs 69.40 lakh will be made to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund," Patel said.

The minister said that the state government is already providing relief material in form of food packets for the people of the Nepal. "In coordination with the Centre's National Disaster Management Authority we have sent 25,000 food packets to Nepal," he added.

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