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Contribute 1 month salary for Ker flood relief;CM to MPs,MLAs

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Press Trust of India Puducherry

: Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy today urged all MPs from the union territory and MLAs to contribute one month's salary to the Kerala Flood Relief Fund.

The contributions can be made to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund and it would be forwarded to the Kerala Chief Minister's distress relief fund, he told reporters here.

He said raders' associations, members of the public and others could also contribute in kind, all of which would despatched to Kerala.

The Puducherry government had already announced an assistance of Rs one crore on its part to the fund.

Kerala has been ravaged by heavy rains in the second spell of monsoon fury since August 8, which has claimed the lives of 197 people.

 

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First Published: Aug 19 2018 | 1:45 PM IST

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