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Aid pours in to Wayanad from Kozhikode

The Planning Secretariat hall at the Kozhikode civil station on Wednesday was a beehive of activities on July 31. A motley group of around 100 persons, comprising mainly volunteers, interns from the District Collector’s internship programme, and collectorate employees, were working like a well-oiled machine in an effort to send relief material to the landslide-hit regions in Wayanad. People keep coming with trucks full of relief material,” said Nijeesh A, who is coordinating activities at the collectorate. The Kozhikode Corporation had also set up a collection centre at Tagore Centenary Hall from where five truckloads of relief material were sent to Wayanad. We could sent around eight tonnes of material, which consisted of footwear, water bottles, clothes, blankets, diapers, and towels,” Corporation Secretary K.U.

The Hindu

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