Round up of Flood relief in South India: Sewa vibhag

karnataka Flood situation

10 million people had become homeless and nearly two million houses had been destroyed across 14 districts in the state.
More than 300,000 people have taken refuge in about 1,000 relief camps

The death toll rose to 194 in Karnataka alone

200,000 to 300,000 people in villages where aid has not reached

Bijapur, Bagalkote, Raichur, Koppal and Gulbarga districts remain the worst affected. In Bijapur alone, more than 17 villages are marooned and over 10,000 people have been left homeless.

Sewa vibhag Karnataka Relief Efforts

Volunteers working

Bagalkot :  150



Belgaum: 400



Gadag: 80


Raichur 40


Beneficiaries in various districts
 Bagalkot :  4500



Belgaum: 15000



Gadag:2600


Raichur:s1800











RSS workers distributed rice, biscuits, toast and other food supplies that had been brought from Chikkaballapur, the villagers scrambled, jostling children, the elderly and the.

A RSS team distributed food provisions to some flood victims of Poinguinim on Sunday.

14 lakh people are affected by the flash floods of Krishna & Tungabhadra Rivers that has devastated Kurnool & Mahaboob Nagar Districts. Seva Bharati & RSS Volunteers were the first to reach out for the Rescue Operation. Following are the service details as on 5th October.

Kurnool District :

•     Breakup of Swayamsevaks rushed to Rescue operation of Kurnool District :

              Nandyal     : 150        Adoni :     80    Kurnool : 300        Nandi Kotkur : 30
             Athamakur : 30        and Other Villages : 200            Kurnool surrounding villages : 200
             Total 990 Swayamsevaks serving in Kurnool District.

• Out of 29 affected surrounding villages of Kurnool Town we have so far reached out to 20 villages. 
• Rescued 1000 people from old city of Kurnool by using ropes.
• 5 Health Camps running round the clock.
• In Kurnool district we have so far distributed 5 lakh Chapatis, 3 lakh water packets, 1 lakh Biscuit packets, 2 lakh Bread packets.
• At Mantralayam food camps and health Camps are Running round the Clock. Cremation of unidentified bodies and burial of dead cows is ongoing. We have so far distributed Rs.One Lakh worth of Blankets, Rs. One Lakh Worth of Clothes, One Lakh Pulihora Packets.
  

Mahaboob Nagar District : 

• 1000 Swayamsevaks rushed to Rescue operation of Mahaboob Nagar District. 
• Service is carried out in 50 villages of 10 mandals.
• In Mahaboob Nagar District we have so far distributed 30,000 Food Packets, 5 Lakh Water Packets, 20,000 Jowar Roti Packets, 50,000 Chapathi Packets, 20,000 Bread packets, 1 lakh Biscuit packets and Rs. 70,000 worth of Medicines.
• As per survey done 0n 5th October, in Mahaboob Nagar district alone 16,000 families are homeless, It is estimated that the basic survival kit costs as below.
  

1. Cooking utensils                                   Rs. 450-00
2. Provisions (Rice, Dal, Tamarind etc)     Rs. 600-00 
3. Blanket and Mat                                  Rs. 150-00
   

          Total cost of survival kit per family    Rs. 1,200-00

• The total cos of survival kit for 16,000 families is Rs. 1.92 Crores

Sewa vibhag Flood relief Vijayawada

Sewa vibhag Vijayawada

Swayamsewaks Relief work (Sakshi news paper)

This news Item Describes the actual status of the After effects and situation in the flood hit area. Covered in Sakshi the Telugu news paper (owned by YSR's son Jagan and you can see a reason why he publishes the pic and noty even once mentions the name of Swayamsevaks / Sangh organisation).
The headline itself goes on saying Villages... or Samshans !

That gives the whole picture.

RSS volunteers fan out to do relief work

Source: Expressbuzz

Express News ServiceFirst Published : 08 Oct 2009 03:27:00 AM IST

HYDERABAD: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other like-minded organisations are involving themselves in relief work in the floodaffected districts of the State.

In the first phase of relief operations, they distributed over one lakh food packets collected from neighboring villages and districts in the interior rural areas of Kurnool, Mahaboobnagar and Nalgonda districts.

The Swayamsevaks said that since links to Kurnool had been cut off, material was being brought in from Anantapur, Kadapa, Nellore in the State, and Raichur in Karnataka. The RSS set up relief camps in Karnool town at Saraswati Sishu Mandir and G Pulla Reddy Engineering College.

Volunteers from Adoni cleaned the Raghavendra Swamy temple in Mantralayam and cleared the carcasses of the cows of Goshala and other animals, and handed them over to the police.

In Hyderabad, 2,000 Swayamsevaks went round the city collecting money, food and other material needed for the flood-affected. Two donation collection centres have come up at the State headquarters of RSS and the Keshav Memorial School. Every day four truckloads of food material, two trucksloads of other essentials are dispatched to flood-affected areas. Besides, 200 volunteers from the city are engaged in sanitation work there.

The all-India secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) visited the affected areas of Kurnool and met the volunteers engaged in relief work there. RSS State president TV Deshmukh and Seva Bharati organising secretary Vidwan Reddy have visited the relief camp at Gadwal in Mahaboobnagar district and met the volunteers there.

In the second phase of relief operations, the RSS surveyed the affected areas of Mahaboobnagar district and found that 58 villages were badly destroyed and 16,000 families were devastated.

The organisation decided to supply kits to 5,000 families to enable them to lead a normal life. Each kit consists of kitchen utensils, foodgrains and other material of daily use.

In Kurnool district, 250 to 300 villages are still under water hampering their survey. In the third and final phase of operations, the RSS plans to rehabilitate devastated people and reconstruct destroyed villages.

“We have identified various means of rehabilitation of people like supplying them implements required for their occupation,’’ Swayamsevaks said, adding that they were involving several voluntary organisations.