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SILCHAR: Neighbours extended helping hands towards flood ravaged Cachar district as Mizoram Presbyterian Church of Aizwal donated Rs eight lakh to the relief fund. Cachar Deputy Commissioner Keerthi Jalli received the donation on behalf of Assam government.
Earlier Manipur government too sent a consignment of relief materials to Cachar. Apart from 4.5 tonnes quintal rice, one ton pulse, 102 bags containing 30 kgs of salt and five tonnes mustard oil, Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh sent a team of SDRF along with search and rescue equipments. Jalli received the consignment from her Jiribam counterpart at Assam Manipur border.
The good samaritan gesture was, however, initiated by Central Young Mizo Association as the volunteers arrived at Silchar with a consignment of water at a time when the people of the town was crying for a pouch of drinking water.
Mizo Chief Minister Zoramthanga assured that his government would ensure all possible help to the flood hit neighbour. "Mizoram will always be with Assam in this trying time," Zoramthanga said in a tweet message. Interesting eleven months back Mizo armed police opened fire at its Assam counterpart in an inter-state land dispute killing Assam police personnel and injuring 43 others including the then SP of Cachar. However in a time of calamity, Mizoram rose above enmity and stood by its neighbour.
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