Punjab sends 120 trucks of fodder, cattle feed to Leh

JALANDHAR - A convoy of 120 trucks carrying cattle feed and fodder was flagged off by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Sunday as a part of relief operations for the people affected by last month’s devastating cloudburst in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir.

Badal said that Punjab would extend all help to the flood-affected people of Leh. He said that 380 more trucks of cattle feed and fodder would be sent to Leh from the districts of Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Amritsar, Jalandhar Taran Tarn, Nawanshehr, Kapurthala, Ludhiana and Fatehgarh Sahib daily for the next four days.

He said that the entire relief material in the form of 250 tonnes of cattle feed and 15,000 quintals of fodder was being sent as per the requirement of Leh’s deputy commissioner.

“Punjabis are benevolent and magnanimous by nature and were everready to help anyone in distress or a crisis,” Badal said.

The chief minister said that he had also offered to help the government of Pakistan’s Punjab province in the wake of recent flash floods there and personally talked to his Pakistani Punjab counterpart Shahbaz Sharif on telephone last week.