Union Minister Patel visits Kosamghat on anniv of earthquake

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Staff Reporter

“Shramdaan never goes waste as it is carried out for service of others. The selfless works carried out 25 years back evaded the proposed displacement of hundreds of families from Kosamghat after the disastrous earthquake on May 22, 1997 in Jabalpur. The shramdaan carried out after the earthquake proved fruitful and now the Kosamghat village is prosperous than ever before,” said Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti and Food Procession Industries, Prahlad Singh Patel.

Union Minister of State, Prahlad Patel said this while interacting with the residents of Kosamghat on the 25th anniversary of the earthquake, on Sunday.

It may be noted that Kosamghat was the epicentre of earthquake in Jabalpur on May 22, 1997 and a large numbers of persons were killed and almost all the houses were ruined in the tremor. After the disaster, Prahlad Patel reached at Kosamghat and spent more than a month for service to victim families and worked for reconstruction of their houses.

Speaking on the occasion, Prahlad Patel shared his experiences of spending time with the victims and informed about the valuable contribution from Madan Mahal Prem Nagar Gurudwara, Marhatal Gurudwara as its members accompanied him in re-construction of and providing food and other daily need commodities commodities to victims. He also applauded the working of media persons for helping the by raising their voice before the victims of administration and the Government.

Prahlad Patel to the persons from Jabalpur, Seoni and Narsinghpur with Shram Veer Samman for their valuables

support to earthquake victims. On the occasion, former Mayor, Dr. Swati Sadanand Godbole also informed about the noble gesture of Prahlad Patel and others amidst boiling summer for providing everything relief to the families which lost in the disaster. During the programme, former Mayor, Sadanand Godbole, MLA, Jalim Singh Patel, BJP State Treasurer, Akhilesh Jain, former Mayor, Hakim Singh Chadhar, Indira Gandhi National Art Centre, Trustee, Alok Jain, Manish Agrahari, Mamlesh Sharma, Rakesh Agrawal, Sonu Agrawal and others were present. A photo exhibition of media coverage of earthquake includes photographs of Nitin Popat, Sugan Jat, Sanjeev Choudhary, Anil Tiwari, Rajesh Malviya, Umesh Thakur, Afroz Khan, Anand Manodhya, Virendra Rajput, Pappu Sharma, KK Namdeo, Ashok Barman, Pradeep Parihar, Dheeraj Patel, Ram Sachdeva, Sonu Sachdeva and Manoj Shrivastava was organised at Kosamghat.

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