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ISKCON gesture for Kurnool flood victims

Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar

Aid for flood-hit: ISKCON leader Revati Raman Das with relief material in Tirupati on Thursday. —

TIRUPATI: In a major initiative to resurrect devastated lives, the Tirupati unit of International Society of Krsna Consciousness (ISKCON) has announced to meet the basic needs of 1,000 families in the flood-ravaged Kurnool district.

The ISKCON administrators dispatched a 1,000 sets of essentials in a truck at their Lotus temple headquarters on Thursday.

The goods worth Rs. 1,000 per family were neatly packed.

The consignment included rice, groceries, vegetables, bed sheets, clothes, notebooks, school stationery, worth in all Rs.10 lakh.

ISKCON head Revati Raman Das flagged off the truck carrying the relief material.

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