• 2 battalions of Army have reached at Bhuj with latest equipment and 30 special medical team.
• The facility of additional 200 to 300 beds is increased in the hospitals of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar for the injured.
• Appeal to the voluntary agencies, donors, traders and industrialists to immediately provide essential commodities, medicine, food, blankets etc. for the people of the affected areas. In a response to this recurrent flow of donations started.
• Those rendered homeless after earthquake in Ahmedabad to be given vacant residential accommodation in Gandhinagar.
• Distribution of Flour, Sugar, Edible oil, Rice, Tuver dal and other eatables by Civil Supplies Corporation to the people rendered homeless due to earthquake.
• Wheat flour, Rice and Kerosene to be distributed free of cost to earthquake affected people.
• Those affected by earthquake in various areas of Kachchha District to get kit containing essential items like 50 kg. Wheat flour, 3 kg. Rice, Groundnul oil (1 kg. Pouch), 600 gm. Masala packets, 2 kg. Potatos and 1 kg. Onion.
• The State Government made a planning to send Bulldozers, Dummpers, Gas cutters, Slab cutters, Crane, JCB esqewater, Generater set for rescue operation and tents, tadpatries, S. T. Buses, PVC tanks, Water tankers, Petrol and Diseal, Food-grain, Milk Powder, Petromex, Torch, Blankets, Food Packets, Flour, Medicines and other essential commodities in an adequate quantity for the purpose of rehabilitations.
• Monthly 20 Kg wheat and 5 kg rice will be distributed to each earthquake affected family, ignoring its status in view of the standards of poverty-line, upto March 31, 2001.
• Instructions to issue provisional ration cards immediately too those affected families who have lost their ration cards in the earthquake affected areas. Accordingly, Civil Supplies Department has prepared as many as two lac provisional ration cards and sent them to Kachchha district.

In order to provide shelter to orphan children, widows and helpless old people in the wake of the earthquake in Kachchha, centers for their adoption have been started at Bhuj, Bhachau, Anjar, Rapar and Gandhidham in Kachchha district.

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