Aids from the rest of India started pouring in India-controlled Kashmir Friday, a week after a powerful earthquake jolted the region killing 1,400 people.

The Andhra Pradesh government Friday donated tents worth 4.8 million rupees (about 110,000 US dollars) for victims of the earthquake. It had announced to give 20 million rupees (about 460, 000 US dollars) as aids.

The Congress, ruling party in Pradesh, also decided to hold a rally in Hyderabad, capital of Pradesh, Saturday to collect clothes and utensils for the quake victims.

Delhi government also promised Friday to contribute 10 million rupees (230,000 US dollars) to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund for the quake victims.

Delhi's Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, head of the municipal government, said that all cabinet ministers, government staff and state-run enterprises employees will contribute their one-day salary to the relief fund while calling upon all Delhi citizens to donate for the earthquake victims.

North India's Haryana Pradesh has sent 40,000 blankets and 927 tents to India-controlled Kashmir by trucks and planes, said a government spokesman Friday.

Another 20,000 blankets have been sent by Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi National Relief and Welfare Trust.

Besides aids from outside, the local administration also announced policies about rehabilitation of local families that lost all their properties and houses in the earthquake.

A government committee announced Friday that each family, homeless in the earthquake of India-controlled Kashmir, will receive 100,000 rupees (2,306 US dollars) for rebuilding their houses.

The Reconstruction Committee, chaired Chief Minister of India- controlled Kashmir Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, held the first meeting here Friday.

Most victims would like to rebuild their houses by themselves, and, therefore, the administration decided to provide assistance funds, said Ghulam Nabi Azad, Urban Development Minister of the central government, who also attended Friday's meeting.

Each family will receive 40,000 rupees (922 US dollars) as the first instalment of the assistance fund in cheque.

The committee decided to set up some depots of building materials such as stones, wood, iron, tin sheets and cement so that people can buy the material easily.

The government will also build some large community halls for the homeless before they rebuild their houses as the tents cannot shelter people from the coming winter.

The winter is drawing near in the region and villages in high mountains of the Himalayas have seen the first snowfall this year.

"To begin with, it was decided that the union urban development ministry would build 20 community halls, each capable of accommodating 300 people, in the quake-hit areas," a government spokesman said.

The second consignment of Indian relief to Pakistan also left Delhi by train through Wagah border in west India's Punjab Pradesh Friday morning.

The powerful earthquake has claimed 25,000 people in Pakistan and 1,400 lives here while making 106,000 India-controlled Kashmir people homeless.

Source: Xinhua