Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), the Nepalese arm of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), on Tuesday, decided to send out relief and rescue parties comprising its activists in eight areas most affected by Saturday's earthquake.
Besides, the RSS has made provision for 10,000 tarpaulin sheets and same number of blankets to reach the victims in the next two days. The decision was taken at a marathon meeting chaired by RSS's joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale who has been camping in Kathmandu to coordinate Sangh's relief operations in Nepal.
The Sangh may also send in counsellors from among its volunteers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, but only after the relief and rescue operations are over.
the RSS, would be pressed into relief works.
"Doctors and especially specialists as orthopaedics are most needed in situations such as earthquakes, as the Sangh had witnessed during the 2001 Gujarat quake. Fifty such specialists from Lucknow, Delhi and Gujarat will be providing their services in Nepal on a rota basis. The Lucknow team has already arrived in Nepal today," said RSS national prachar pramukh Manmohan Vaidya.
Vaidya said RSS would be working in Nepal through only its arm HSS. He said: "The eight areas identified for sending relief and rescue missions will have only HSS activists. As of now, we are not injecting any RSS member."
He said: "Whatever we do will have to be done in close coordination with the Nepalese government. This is a matter between two nations. The media has been giving out several contending claims regarding the number of RSS volunteers having gone to Nepal but all of them are untrue."
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