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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Bihar flood relief : Subodh Gupta's Contribution

Recent Bihar flood has evoked strong and emotional response from different sections of society and NRB’s have also come forward in providing support. Many NRI groups, teams from NGO’s have really taken up the cause of destitute population and working on the ground with various agencies.

Leading contemporary artist Subodh Gupta has collaborated with his celebrity friends in the art world, and collected Rs 4.17 crore through online auction of their paintings for rehabilitation of the state's flood victims.

Gupta is among few Indian artists who have made meteoric rise during the past few years. One of his paintings sold at a whopping Rs 4.28 crore at a recent art auction at Gurgaon, where bidders from 32 countries competed with one another for 100-odd works of art by Indian contemporaries.

"We persuaded 30 leading Indian contemporary artists to donate their works for the flood-relief auction," Gupta and his wife, Bharti, informed TOI in an e-mail. Saffronart, Peter Nagi of Nature Morte Gallery and Trident Hotel at Gurgaon collaborated in the project. The auction was hosted by Saffronart on its online platform on November 11 and 12.

Gupta and his friends have selected two Bihar-based NGOs __ Gunj and Samajik Saikshanik Vikas Kendra (SSVK) -- to spend the money in the flood-hit areas. "We have already disbursed Rs 50 lakh to Gunj and Rs 34 lakh to SSVK," Gupta said.

Read more about Bihar flood relief effort here.

Join the facebook group for supporting the Bihar flood relief mission.

Labels: Bihar 2.0, Bihar Culture, Bihar Floods, Bihari Newsmakers, Bihari Youth Icon, Subodh Gupta

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Bihar Flood Relief – Your Contribution will save life

Bihar is facing its worst ever disaster in recent times and the koshi floods (river of sorrow) has ravaged the lives of millions (almost 50 lakh people) in the state. It’s impossible to even estimate the magnitude of the damage caused, lives that has been lost in the last few days as millions are stranded in marooned areas where no relief effort has reached.

Folks who have been carrying out rescue operations in the state have been in touch and the situation on ground is really heart wrenching. We are trying to supply some relief material and work with the agencies and NGO’s to provide support.

What is our focus?
Our focus is on providing clean water, Life Jacket and Plastic sheet for temporary shelter. Availability of clean drinking water is necessary to prevent any epidemic breakdown. Your donations are required for buying medicines & Plastic. You can also help us in purchasing these medicines by providing contacts.
These medicines will be delivered to Chandan Singh who is part of our team and based out of Patna. Chandan will take care of its further distribution. Distribution will be through some of the good NGOs working in the relief operations.

People behind this initiative
This initiative is driven by people from multiple bihar based groups. We have executed similar projects in past through these yahoo groups. Some of the projects that we have executed in past can be found at http://www.bihari.org/ , http://1bihar.blogspot.com/ & http://coolbihari.blogspot.com/

How these medicines will be distributed?
Last year also the group had worked for the flood relief operation and drive details are available on http://biharfloodrelief.blogspot.com/ .This year’s efforts are updated on http://biharfloodrelief2008.blogspot.com/

Transparency
Your donations will be acknowledged and account statements will be published regularly, you can track the development by this blog. Donations collected and purchases done will be displayed & it will be updated regularly.

Online –Transfer your donations to ICICI bank
Name: Ashok Kumar Sharma,A/C Number: 005301022273,Branch: Jayanagar/Bangalore
Please mention flood relief and your name in remarks section while transferring funds Please mention your name in the comments (will help us track).After transfer send an email with the transfer details to ashok.1857@gmail.com.We will send you a confirmation for the same.

How to transfer donation?

Bihar Chief Minister Relief Fund

Write a cheque to
A/C Name: “Chief Minister Relief Fund, Bihar”
A/C No: 10839124928
Bank: State Bank of India, Secretariat Branch, Patna.
Put your Phone number, name and address on the back of the cheque.Deposit the cheque to the nearest State Bank of India cheque drop box

Disaster relief State Control Room Number:: 91-612-2217305/2215027/6452572

NGO Prayas

Institutional Donor and as well as individual can donate via our Sister NGO PRAYAAS
Account in on the name of: M/S Prayaas,
Current Account No. : 10447347087
Bank Address : State Bank of India, Indiranagar,
Bangalore,Bank Code : 3301
Routing Number (Swift No.) : SBI NIN BB 147A,MICR number : 560002021

Prayaas Official Address:Mr. Amitesh Bharti,Prayaas(r),
C1-201, GreenWood Regency,Doddakannahalli village,Carmelaram
PO, Adj. Wipro,Sarjapur Road,Bangalore – 560035,India.

If you want to send a cheque/DD:Please send the crossed A/c Payee cheque in favour of,”SBI, A/c Prayaas, Current A/c No. 10447347087

Please pass this post to your friends and relative who may be interested in supporting this relief operation.

Updates available on:
http://biharfloodrelief2008.blogspot.com/

Chandan #9931763070PatnaEmail: csingh@gmail. com
Vivek Kumar #9908233935HyderabadEmail: vivek.learner@ gmail.com
Ashok Sharma -Email: ashok.1857@gmail.com
Ajit Chouhan Email: ajitchouhan@gmail.com
Divyanshu Verma Email: divyanshuv@gmail.com

Labels: Bihar Floods, relief

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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Seeking Support for Flood Relief in Bihar

Bihar has seen one of the worst floods in recent times and we are working towards getting some medicines,funds,cloths and any other help for the flood relief work in Bihar. I am presently working with a team which is providing direct help to people who have been affected by the floods in Bihar and also coordinating with people from other organizations in getting whatever possible help we can. Some of the organizations have agreed to provide medicine, machine for clean water and even basic relief material like plastic sheets. Unfortunately the magnitude of disaster and loss of life has not been widely covered by popular media so we are finding it difficult to drum support for this cause. Our effort intends to provide direct relief to people in need and we are soliciting help from all quarters, especially Biharis who can make some contribution for this cause.

You can refer to some of the links below for details on the extent of damage caused.

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/s-asia-floods-worst-in-living-memory-says-un/46268-3-1.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Flood_situation_in_Bihar_unprecendented_admits_Bihar_Govt/articleshow/2263559.cms
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/347381.htm
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=8fdabb3d-e073-4d5b-89f9-2b8ca6a09f0a&ParentID=fe1c95ee-300d-4b33-befb-c6941c459dd8&&Headline=100+villages+inundated+in+Bihar+floods
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKDEL9036220070808

We are co ordinating our efforts though the yahoo groups/mails and blog ( http://biharfloodrelief.blogspot.com/ ) .Our team members from the One Bihar Team are diligently working 24*7 for this operation and we desperately need some help from every quarter.

Do let me know if your organization or you as an individual would like to contribute for this humanitarian cause. Please let me know in case you are willing to support us in whatever way you can. We are also seeking contributions through Prayaas(http://www.prayaas.org/bankdetails.php) so please come forward and lend your valuable support.

Labels: Bihar Floods

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