A report that came on Sept 13th on the Assam Tribune
http://www.assamtribune.com/sep1303/city.html
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Assam Assn, Mumbai, steps in to lessen woes of flood-hit
By A Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Sept 12 � The Assam Association, Mumbai, moved by the plight of the State�s flood and erosion-affected people, has come forward to distribute relief materials among these people. Perhaps, this is the first instance of an Assam Association coming forward to help the State�s misery-struck people. There are several Assam Associations all over the country and abroad.
Addressing newsmen here this afternoon, Smt Rupanjali Barua, president of The Assam Association, Mumbai, said that her organisation was also planning to hold a conference of all the Assam Associations of the country and abroad sometime next year, with the aim of uniting all the Assamese people living outside for helping Assam.
She said that on behalf of her organisation, she would also take up the issues of flood and erosion in the State with the Chairman of the Brahmaputra Board. She will also meet the Chief Minister of the State to apprise him of the complaints of the people of Majuli, where a large number of erosion-affected people are still awaiting Government relief materials, besides the Mumbai Assam Bhawan affairs, she said.
Smt Barua also regretted that the so-called national newspapers of the country and the electronic media too were not covering the miseries caused by flood and erosion to the State�s people. It was from a news telecast by the BBC on July 13 last that she could come to know as to what had befallen the State�s people this monsoon.
Moved by what she had seen in the news item, she convened a meeting of the Association on that very day and the members of the organisation again met on July 15 last to chalk out their future course of action. By August 15 last, the Association members collected an amount of Rs 1.5 lakh in cash and cheques and 15 crates of clothes, worth around Rs 75,000.
A three-member team of the Association, comprising Smt Barua, advisor Golap Bora and a leading member Gunin Barpujari, then came to the State and procured 250 pieces each of mosquito nets, stainless steel plates, bowels and glasses, plastic buckets and mugs and bed sheets.
The team distributed all the items it had collected and purchased, among the 715 flood and erosion-affected families at various places of Majuli island, between September 4 and 7.
Smt Sarma said that in several areas of the island, the affected people complained of non-receipt of any Government relief material.
She also said that she had come to know that though the State Government had appointed an officer as in-charge of the Mumbai Assam Bhawan sometime back, a lobby was pulling hurdles on his assuming the charge. He is yet to be released from his present office. The said lobby is hell-bent on handing over the Bhawan to a private party, she said.
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