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Helping hand: ASAD to aid Assam flood vicitm

The Assamese Students Association Delhi (ASAD) will provide medicines and other amenities to those caught in the brimful misery in the time of flood in Assam.

In a statement ASAD president Kumar Gaurav Dutta and general secretary Debabrat Morang said the the members of the student organisation will visit the flood affected areas with a helping hand.

Moreover, the association is also holding a fund-raising painting exhibition on September 28 and 28 at the Assam House in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi to aid the victims. Besides, ASAD is also planning to address the effective mechanism to combat the annual flood, demanding the involvement of the central and state funded research institutes. The organisation further will a press conference on September 27at the Assam House, Bordoloi Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

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Nanda Kirati Dewan's picture

Better Late than Never Friends........ Welcome home gGuys....... for a truly noble and humble cause. Greetings....ASAD can also organise a seminar on Flood Control of Assam in the national capital. Youths can do what Parliamentarians could not....Wish u all the Best.

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