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Sports ministry deputes NYKS, NSS volunteers for quake relief
New Delhi, April 25
Sports minister Sarbananda
Sonowal on Saturday directed the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS)
and the National Service Scheme (NSS) to depute their volunteers in the
quake hit areas of the country for relief and rescue work, a central
government release said.
At least 155 people were killed and many
were left bloodied when a massive earthquake shook Nepal and India on
Friday, causing widespread devastation.
Over 150 were killed in
the devastation in the Himalayan country, according to Nepal's ministry
of home affairs, while six people died in India.
Reports from
across north India said people ran out of their homes and offices even
as buildings shook due to the quake and the strong aftershocks.
The
earthquake measured a staggering 7.9 on the Richter scale, with its
epicentre at Nepal's Lamjung district some 75 kilometre northwest of
capital Kathmandu. There were six strong aftershocks.
Sonowal expressed grief over the loss of lives and property in earthquake hit areas of Nepal and India.
"The
volunteers of these two organisations will be helpful in relief camps
as they work at the grassroots level," he said in a release.