Samikhsya Bureau
Shapoorji Pallonji Group on Monday contributed Rs.51 lakhs towards Orissa chief minister’s relief fund for Cyclone Fani affected areas. Gopalpur Port director and CEO Sandeep Agarwal and Shapoorji Pallonji Ports AVP Jagdish Rout presented the electronic transfer documents to chief minister Naveen Patnaik.
Earlier, Shapoorji Pallonji Ports donated a 1,000 million litre per day Aqua Guard RO water purification system to the Puri district headquarters hospital.
Puri district has been facing a possible outbreak of cholera post Cyclone Fani causing serious worry for the district administration and hospitals. The water purification system will provide clean and safe water drinking water to patients, doctors, hospital staff as well as visitors. The water purification system will be maintained by the Shapoorji Pallonji Group for five years after which it will be handed over to the hospital authorities.
Immediately after the devastation caused by Cyclone Fani, Shapoorji Pallonji Group conducted a three-day relief camp from May 28 to May 30, distributing relief materials among the affected families of Puri district.
Representatives of the group also visited many affected villages under Sadar block to distribute kits with livelihood essentials like tarpaulin and rope for shelter, plates and tumblers, sleeping mats, buckets and mugs, toiletries including soaps, towels, toothbrushes and toothpaste apart from mosquito coils and sanitary napkins for women. They also provided chlorine tablets to the families as the groundwater in the affected area was feared to have been contaminated and not fit for consumption.
