Overview

• Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel flagged off a special train from Gandhinagar carrying about 400 tonnes of food and 70 tonnes of medicines for flood-hit Punjab.
• Supplies included wheat flour, rice, onions, potatoes, edible oil, sugar, milk powder, and 10,000 tarpaulins, 10,000 mosquito nets and 10,000 bedsheets.
• Gujarat released cheques of Rs 5 crore each to Punjab and Chhattisgarh from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund and dispatched roughly 8,000 relief kits to Chhattisgarh.
• The consignment was coordinated through the Relief Commissioner’s office with multiple state departments, and the train bore posters featuring the prime minister and the chief minister with a multilingual relief message.
• As the consignment moved out, the BJP and Congress traded charges over flood response in Gujarat’s Banaskantha, and the prime minister announced an additional Rs 1,600 crore for Punjab alongside advances under national relief schemes.