Bihar CM Nitish Kumar donates one month's salary for quake victims

Patna: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar too has donated his one month's salary for the quake victims.

Nitish Kumar gets a salary of one lakh rupees per month and he donated entire 30-day salary for the quake victims. In this regard, it is said the Bihar Chief Minister gave a cheque to the secretary-in-charge of chief minister relief fund. He also appealed to his ministerial colleagues and others to extend their helping hand and donate for earthquake victims.

The Chief Minister said  the state government was extending all assistance to people coming from Nepal in the state.He said that relief and rehabilitation work was being carried out in all the districts of the state. A minister and a secretary have been appointed for every district to speed up the exercise, he said.

Nitish said he would review the progress of relief work for earthquake victims as well for citizens who  were earlier affected by tropical storm on late April 21 night, squall in March and prolonged winter spell in February through video conferencing this evening.

He said Rs 1,764 crore has been distributed among farmers who had suffered damage to their produce due to prolonged winter spell in February and squall in March.

Nitish said aftershocks of earthquake proved that the entire energy has not been dissipated hence the danger of tremor existed.

He stressed on construction of earthquake-proof building in Bihar whose areas fall in seismic zone 5 and zone4.