As flood water started receding, Union Tourism Minister KJ Alphons has appealed public for help and said that the state need ready-to-eat food, skilled workers, doctors, and nurses to rebuild lives.
As floodwaters continue to recede, Union Tourism Minister KJ Alphons has appealed public for help and said that the state need ready-to-eat food, skilled workers, doctors, and nurses to rebuild lives.
The state now faces a gigantic task of reconstruction of destroyed infrastructure and rehabilitation lakhs of people rendered homeless. Over 10 lakh displaced have been sheltered in 5,645 relief camps.
The death toll in the current spell of monsoon fury that began on August 8 has risen to 223. The Centre has declared the devastating floods a 'calamity of severe nature'.
The minister also issued an appeal to skilled workers like plumbers, electricians and carpenters to come to make homes livable and help the state regain normalcy.
In a series of tweets, tagging Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah, KJ Alphons said, "As the flood is receding in Kerala people have to move to whatever is left of their homes. Need ready to eat cooked food, clothes and an army of electricians, plumbers and carpenters,"
"I appeal to General Public: What Kerala requires... - pre cooked individually packed dry food, an army of electricians, plumbers, carpenters to make homes livable.
"Doctors and nurses who can go down to the villages as there is apprehension about the possibility of outbreak of deceases. New clothes, if it can be distributed through NGOs," he said.
The minister also thanked the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) for providing the state huge quantities of tetra pack milk.
Meanwhile, the Cochin Port Trust has earmarked two godowns for free storage of relief materials, arriving from across the country, for people affected by the unprecedented floods in Kerala, a port trust official said.
The first truck carrying relief materials, mobilised by all major ports under the Union Shipping Ministry, was dispatched through the VOC Port Trust in Tuticorin and will be arriving at the port here today, he said.
(With PTI Inputs)
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