Centre to help distressed people: Ex-DCM Ashok
Madikeri, August 22: Former deputy chief minister R Ashok said that the Bengaluru BJP unit has contributed around 15 loads of relief materials to the Kodagu flood victims and it was the duty of the Bengalureans.
Distributing the relief materials to the victims here on Wedesday, Ashok said that the central government has planned to construct houses and schools for the victims in the district. It was their duty to protect the land which has given soldiers to the country. Bengaluru people were with the Kodagu people, he assured.
The centre would give required financial assistance to Kodagu for developing the devastated places and flood victims, he said.
MLA KG Bopaiah, ZP president BA Harish, former president Shanteyanda Ravi Kushalappa, Kodagu district BJP leaders were present.
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Illegally stored gas cylinders seized
Thane (PTI): Authorities have seized illegally stored 1,839 gas cylinders and seven vehicles worth over Rs 67 lakh in the Dombivli MIDC area of Thane district, officials said on Saturday.
A special vigilance team of the Mumbai Rationing Department detected an illegal storage of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders in Phase-2 of Dombivli (East).
Cylinders belonging to multiple gas agencies were found stockpiled in closed vehicles, unauthorised warehouses, and open sheds without mandatory permissions from the Explosives Department, Fire Department, or oil companies, according to an official release.
