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Relief work by Utkala Bipanna Sahayata Samiti (UBSS) for flood affected people

The Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti (UBSS) was established in 1982 as  a voluntary Organization to serve the destitute. It is registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, India bearing registration No. 18869/9 of 1982-83.

The UBSS is a network of dedicated volunteers drawn from varied walks of life. It works with many other like-minded organizations from where it gets disciplined work force to carry out rescue, relief and rehabilitation work in a systematic way.

It made its first valued contribution in the aid of flood affected people of the state Orissa in the year 1982 itself. Since then it has been working for the social welfare & upliftment of the downtrodden and underprivileged.

Be it flood, cyclone, famine, sunstroke or any form of natural calamity or accidents, the dedicated volunteers of UBSS have fought against all odds to reach the people in their hours of crisis.

Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti at 2011 Flood Relief

Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti has been involved in relief work during the recent floods. UBSS has actively worked in 205 villages of 36 different blocks situated in 12 different districts affected by the floods. It has served cooked and dry food to around 53,849 people and supplied around 85,000 water pouches.

Along with this, victuals like biscuit packets, chuda (flattened dry rice pellets), jiggery; articles for daily use like candles, match boxes and even cow feed were also distributed. Sanitation activities were carried out in twenty-one different places by people belonging to seven different voluntary organizations.

More than 450 volunteers worked day and night for over two weeks among the affected people in 205 villages of 36 blocks in the districts of Puri, Khordha, Nayagarh, Katak, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Kendujhar, Angul, Sambalpur and Bargarh. The number of beneficiaries exceeds 55 thousand. About 54 thousand people were supplied cooked food, dry food and fodder for cattle. More than 3500 people were benefitted from health services made available by the UBSS. A team of seven doctors and seven Para medical staff are still working among the affected people in the interior parts of Kendrapada and Jajpur district. The most remarkable service rendered by the dedicated workers of the Samiti was that they supplied nearly 4 thousand bottles of drinking water among those surrounded by dirty water after collecting the empty bottles from different places. This is a service for which the administration had already expressed its inability to do anything.

  

In the ensuing days, the Samiti has chalked out a plan to provide more health and sanitation services on priority basis as quick fix against the after effect of the flood. Distribution of clothes to the needy will also be carried out on priority basis. In the long run the Samiti has planned to provide study materials to the needy students as well as promote animal husbandry among the rural folk.

Statistics of Seva Work as Flood Relief:

District	No. of Block	No. of Village	No. of Beneficiary			Karyakarta
			Total	Food	Health
Sambalpur	02	05	1225	1225	-	15
Bargada	02	02	500	500	-	10
Angul	02	03	420	420	-	32
Khordha	02	17	509	-	509	13
Puri	05	85	11331	10119	1212	158 X 5days
Nayagada	01	02	150	150	-	05
Katak	05.	13	2224	1735	489	54 X 5days
Kendrapada	04	12	5740	5000	740	26 X 4days
Jajpur	05	18	10600	10600	-	56 X 5days
Bhadrak	05	15	7900	7900		44 X 8days
Kendujhar	01	12	8200	8200	-	15 X 4days
Jagatsinghpur	02	21	8542	8000	542	36 X 5days
Total	36	205	57385	53849	3536	459

AN APPEAL

In these hours of crisis, Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti has come forward to serve the distressed as it has been doing since 1982. We need your support, cooperation and participation to normalize the situation and restore the normal life.

We appeal to all individuals, sections and organizations of the Society irrespective of caste, creed and religion to come forward and help the ill-affected. We need all kinds of support from you.

Secretary

    Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti

Donation can be given in the Account No:024010100043982, AXIS BANK, SATYANAGAR, BHUBNESWAR   in favor of  UTKAL BIPANNA SAHAYATA SAMITI, BHUBANESWAR.

You can send  Cheque / Draft / Cash / Materials in the name of “Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti” to the following address

Utkal Bipanna Sahayata SamitiPlot No-41, Sector-A, Zone-D, Mancheswar Industrial EstateBhubaneswar-751 010, Odisha

 Donations given to Utkal Bipanna Sahayata Samiti shall qualify for deduction U/S 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (vide letter No.-ITO (Tech)/80G-160/2006-07,  Dt. 09.05.2007, valid up to assessment year 2010-2011 & onwards )  in the hands of  Donors.

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