From IBN Live
PTI | 09:03 PM,Mar 23,2011
Rajkot, Mar 23 (PTI) With BSF jawans posted on the border battling scorching heat with not even a pedestal fan at their disposal, the Rajkot Municipal Corporation has decided to call for donations from public to arrange for appliances like water coolers and fans for them. RMC Commissioner Dinesh Brahmabhatt has called for donations from the public to provide pedestal fans, refrigerators, air coolers, water coolers and television sets to Border Security Force (BSF) jawans posted at Tharad Desert near Palanpur in North Gujarat. Brahmabhatt recently visited the border area located about 130 km away from Palanpur where three companies of BSF are posted and from where Pakistan is just 15 km away. During his visit to the place, the Commissioner observed that the jawans did not have basic necessities like a fan to fend the heat where the temperature goes upto 50 degrees Celsius during summer or television set for entertainment. "Following my call for donation, I have got good response and few industrialists and builders have come forward to donate the appliances." the commissioner said adding that he plans to provide jawans with 50 pedestal fans, 50 television sets, five refrigerators, five air coolers and five water coolers within a fortnight. Nearly 100 students from different schools would be accompanying the Commissioner when he goes to the border to hand over these products, Brahmabhatt added.
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