Relief material from India for IDPs

Indian High Commissioner Alok Prasad yesterday handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation a consignment of 40,000 individually-packed family packs of humanitarian relief material intended for the internally displaced persons.

The consignment consists of over 900 metric tons of assorted food items (including rice, dhal and sugar), personal hygiene products, clothing articles (including sarees, dhotis, lungis, towels and bed-sheets) and cooking utensils (including steel cooking pots, plates, tumblers and spoons). The food items will cover the needs of 40,000 families for two weeks.

This assistance is a reflection of India's continuing concern for the welfare of the IDPs, many of whom have managed to come out of the conflict-affected zone only within the last 10 days.