On Sunday, a particular Indian Air Force C-130 flight landed in Nepal carrying the primary consignment of emergency aid supplies price Rs 10 crore. India has turn into the primary nation to dispatch emergency aid supplies to the earthquake-hit districts in Nepal.

Two truck-loads of emergency aid supplies supplied by India to Nepal have been dispatched to the quake-affected northwest mountainous area the place persons are going through a scarcity of meals, garments and medicines as a recent tremor struck the area on Monday. Nepal was jolted by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake simply earlier than midnight on Friday that killed 153 folks and injured over 250 others.
The earthquake, which hit Jajarkot and Rukum West districts in western Nepal, additionally broken round 8,000 homes, each private and non-private, in line with officers.

Chief District Officer (CDO) of Banke, Shrawan Kumar Pokharel, stated the aid items have been despatched in the direction of the disaster-affected areas from Nepalgunj Airport and escorted by personnel from the Armed Police Force Nepal.

Pokharel stated a truckload of aid items is for Jajarkot and the opposite for Rukum Paschim (West) aid supplies might be handed over to the chief district officers of the respective districts.

The aid supplies embody 625 items of plastic tarpaulin and tents, 1,000 items of sleeping baggage, 1,000 blankets, 70 large-size tents, 35 packets of tent equipment, medicines and 48 different articles, officers stated.

Ambassador of India to Nepal, Naveen Srivastava, handed over the aid items to Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka.