KL Report
SRINAGAR
Closing their week long donation campaign for earthquake victims of Nepal, South Asian students Friday deposited the collected money in the Nepalese Prime Minister’s Natural Disaster Relief Fund in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Giving details, Bishnu Pokrael – a Nepalese by nationality himself, said that a total of Rs Fifty Four Thousand Nine Hundred and sixty were collected from Kashmir University in two days.
“On Friday we deposited Rs 54960 in Punjab National Bank at Jahangir Chowk in Srinagar,” he said.
“It was a collective endeavour. Our Kashmiri classmates helped a lot in understanding and communicating with the local students here at varsity,” Pokrael said.
Pertinently, Himalayan land locked nation, Nepal was severely hit by an earthquake measuring 7.9 on Richter Scale on April 25, 2015 killing more than 6000 people and damaging the heritage rich infrastructure worth billions.
“Nepalese Embassy in New Delhi has opened the account in Punjab National Bank in the name of Prime Minister’s Natural Disaster Relief Fund in Kathmandu, Nepal through the bank account number 2254002100018449, Punjab National Bank. The bank updates the donation statement every day as a follow-up of the donations,” Zakaria Polash, who is from Bangladesh informed.
