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Aizawl, Jun 27 (PTI) The Presbyterian Church of Mizoram on Monday decided to donate Rs 8 lakh for relief operations in flood-hit Assam’s Cachar district.<\/p>\n
At a meeting, the flood situation in Assam was discussed and it was unanimously decided to provide assistance of Rs 8 lakh for the flood-affected people of Silchar town and its nearby areas in Cachar district, Rev Vanlalnghaka Ralte, the moderator of Synod, said.<\/p>\n
“We have decided to give Rs 8 lakh for the flood victims in Silchar town and nearby villages as a humanitarian gesture and show our love for them at this trying time,” he said.<\/p>\n
Ralte said that he along with Synod secretary Rev ZD Lalhmachhuana would leave for Silchar on Tuesday afternoon to hand over the assistance to Cachar deputy commissioner Keerthi Jalli.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Kolasib sub-headquarters of the Young Mizo Association (YMA) on Monday handed over Rs 50,000 each to the Cachar deputy commissioner, and YMA Silchar branch for the flood victims.<\/p>\n
The Mizoram government has also decided to provide drinking water to the neighbouring state amid the crisis.<\/p>\n
Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga informed Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday that his government would provide drinking water to flood-hit Silchar town.<\/p>\n
The YMA has also provided over 14,000 litres of bottled drinking water to the people of Silchar.<\/p>\n
Mizoram and Assam were once at loggerheads due to border disputes. In July last year, at least six policemen and a civilian from Assam had died in a firing allegedly between police forces of the two neighbouring states.<\/p>\n
The incident of firing was followed by an economic blockade by residents of Chachar’s Lailapur village, which was lifted in August after both governments held talks in Aizawl.<\/p>\n
Mizoram shares a 164.6-km-long inter-state boundary with Assam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aizawl, Jun 27 (PTI) The Presbyterian Church of Mizoram on Monday decided to donate Rs 8 lakh for relief operations in flood-hit Assam’s Cachar district. At a meeting, the flood situation in Assam was discussed and it was unanimously decided to provide assistance of Rs 8 lakh for the flood-affected people of Silchar town and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-194026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}