Take ‘Nava Kerala’ Lottery for mobilizing fund to rebuild the flood-destroyed state- Appeal from FCI EA CITU

Dear Comrades,,We wholeheartedly thank the employees, officers and labours of FCI who directly or through FCI deposited their possible contribution to Kerala Chief Minister’s Distress relief fund. We express our sincere thanks to them for their valuable help to rebuild the lives in Kerala.

The State government of Kerala is relentlessly trying to restore life in the state by carrying out various measures to rebuild and rehabilitate the flood-affected people. Recently they started new lottery ‘Nava Kerala’ for mobilizing fund to rebuild the flood-destroyed state. As you aware, the unprecedented floods in God’s own country Kerala have created chaos, with over 2 lakh(approx) of the residents have been displaced and many have become homeless. The full money received from Nava Kerala ticket will be utilized for the relief activities. The aim of this move is to mobilize fund and not to create lucky persons. However, there will be 90 first prizes of one lakh and 100800 prizes of Rs 5000 from this lottery.

In view of this new initiative, FCI Employees Association (CITU) as part of possible participation in all the measures of government to rebuild the lives of flood-affected peoples, took a temporary registration only to sell the Nava Kerala lottery ticket among our FCI employees, labours and retired employees and their dependents. Our registration number is ECA9423. Comrades the ticket price is Rs 250 and the money collected for the tickets will be utilised by the State Government for the flood victims and relief operations.

Comrades, the scale of effort required to rebuild Kerala is proportional to the magnitude of the calamity. As such we appeal all FCI Family from the entire part of our country to join your hands with the people of Kerala. I humbly request everyone to co-operate with this mission. All comrades, friends, officers, employees, retired employees, labours are requested to be kind enough to take at least one ticket per head.

Comradely yours,

(Samuel Joseph)

Organizing Secretary

FCI Employees Association (CITU)

12-9-18

Camp: Kochi