Summary:
Ahmedabad District Collector Vikrant Pandey says the number of families migrating to Sanand with their cattle from Kutch has swelled. He says about the families from Kutch have brought 10,000 cattle to Sanand and its outskirts. AdvertisingTemporary shelters made of wooden sticks and gunny bags that mimic the traditional mud houses in Kutch locally called “bhunga” have sprouted near Sanand alongside the Sanand-Viramgam highway. About five kilometres away in Virochannagar village, three Hindu families from Lakhpat taluka of Kutch district have been sheltered by a local farmer. “We told them that there are 30 families from Mota Sarada (near Hajipir in Kutch) who are living near Virochannagar with 1,700 cattle..