India Cements donates Rs 50 lakh for relief work in Uttarkhand

DEHRADUN: Chennai-based India Cements Ltd has donated Rs 50 lakh to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund for rebuilding activities in flood-hit Uttarakhand.

The donation is a collective contribution by about 8,000 employees of the company from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, an official release said.

The Vice President of the company, R Muralidhar, met Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna at his official residence here yesterday and handed him a cheque of Rs 50 lakh as donation in this regard.

This is for "resurrecting the lives of people hit by the mid June deluge in which hundreds perished and thousands went missing", it said.