Thursday, June 19, 2014

Control room to help families of stranded Haryanavis in Iraq

CHANDIGARH, JUNE 19
Haryana Government has set up a control room at the 8th floor of Haryana Civil Secretariat here with phone number 0172-5059197 to facilitate those people of the state who want to provide any information regarding members of their families or relatives stranded in Iraq. So far relatives of 20 persons of Haryana who are stranded in Iraq have contacted the control room.
While giving this information here today, Director General, Information, Public Relations and Cultural Affairs Haryana, Mr. Sudhir Rajpal said that the Chief Minister Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda is very much concerned about the safety of the Indians stranded in Iraq and the decision to set up a control room has been taken in compliance of his directions.
Mr. Rajpal said that, if required, the State Government would bear the expenditure of bringing the people of Haryana back to India. He said that the officers of the Union Ministry of External Affairs as well as Indian Embassy in Iraq were being contacted from time to time to get information about those stranded in Iraq.
He said that the State Government has so far got no information from Union Ministry of External Affairs regarding any person of Haryana among the 40 Indians who were in custody of militants in Iraq. However, the State Government is in constant touch with the Union Ministry of External Affairs. He said that Union Ministry is also making all-out efforts for safe evacuation of people stranded in Iraq.
On being asked about 20 people of Haryana who are stranded in Iraq, he said that these included seven from district Yamunanagar, six from Kurukshetra, three from Kaithal, two from Karnal and one each from district Sirsa and Ambala.
Mr. Rajpal said that those from district Yamunanagar included Suresh Pal of Muzafat Kalan, Jasbir Singh of Nagla, Rakesh Kumar and Harjit Singh of Bal Chhappar, Sukhwinder Singh of Sarawan, Naresh Kumar of Musibal and Satnam Singh of Balachaur. Similarly, those from distirct Kurukshetra included Rajesh Kumar of Bhakli, Mohan Lal of Dadlana, Sandeep of Mirzapur, Sanjeev Kumar of Bargat Shahpur, Ashok of Amargarh and Sandeep of Kurukshetra. He said that those from district Kaithal included Deepak of Serda Kalayat, Baljinder Singh of Bhuna Plat and Mastan Singh of Katyor Majra. Similarly, those hailing from district Karnal included Rajbir Singh of Bastali and Avtar Singh of Sambi and those from district of Sirsa and Ambala included Hemant Kumar of Mandi Dabwali and Amit Kumar from Ambala.

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