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BLANKETS-DISTRIBUTION
Warm clothes distribution intensified among distressed people
GAIBANDHA, JAN 9, 2018 (BSS) – With deteriorating chilling condition due
to cold wave here, district administration intensified warm clothes
distribution among the distressed people last couples of days to mitigate
their sufferings.
District administration officials today said district relief and
rehabilitation office received a total of 56,495 pieces of blankets from the
Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief this season to distribute those to
the cold victims of the district.
The blankets are being distributed to the cold hit distressed and poor
people of all the seven upazilas in the district under the direct supervision
of upazila administration and local government bodies including social
organizations, said district relief and rehabilitation officer AKM Idris Ali.
Sadar UNO Alia Ferdous Khan said the warm clothes were distributed going at
the doorsteps of the cold affected poor people including aged women in all
the 13 unions of the upazila.
Talking to the BSS, deputy commissioner (DC) Gautam Chandra Pal said
instructions were given to the upazila administrations and local government
bodies to distribute the blankets among the victims properly.
The DC also urged the well off sections of the society and different socio-
economic organizations of the country to stand beside the cold affected
people here with the mentality to distribute warm clothes to them as part of
social responsibility.
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