By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: A team of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) is visiting the eastern and north eastern India to take stock of the plight of the minority communities in the region and the various welfare activities undertaken by it for addressing some of the problems affecting the minorities.
During a visit to Chirang and Kokrajhar districts in BTAD area on Wednesday and Thursday, leader of the team Jamaat president Maulana Jalal Uddin Umri inaugurated a housing complex of 375 units that would provide shelter to area’s Bodo and Muslim families, who were displaced during the ethnic strife in 2012.
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Umri further informed that JIH has adopted 200 students of the area, both Bodo and Muslims, who are being provided free education from class V upwards and they would continue to receive this benefit until they pass out from class XII. JIH has also provided free school kits to over 10,000 primary school students in the area besides providing them tuition to make up the losses suffered during the calamity of 2012.
JIH All India secretary Mohammed Ahmed informed the media persons that Jamaat is providing relief on an ongoing basis in the form of health check up and supply of medicines, food and clothes for providing succor to the victims of insurgent activities in the area.
Shafi Madani, secretary CSR of JIH, stated that their organisation is constantly trying to bring about peace and trust among the people living in BTAD and with this end in view, they have had organised several parleys with prominent leaders of the area viz Hagrama Mohilary, Biswajit Daimary and Pramod Boro.
Hundreds of people have been killed this year and thousands others are displaced due to ethnic violence in Assam and living at rehabilitation camp/shelters.
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