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Clinton maps out battle plan for India quake victims
Former United States president, Bill Clinton, has held talks with relief agencies to map out a strategy for reconstruction work in the quake-devastated Indian state of Gujarat.
One day after touring some of the areas worst hit by the January 26 th disaster, Mr Clinton met with a number of non-governmetnal organisations in Gujarat's commercial capital, Ahmedabad.
The NGOs are hoping for a slice of the 50 million dollars raised by the American India Foundation which was set up in the wake of the Gujarat quak with Mr Clinton as chairman.
The former president was also due to meet senior Gujarat government officials before flying to Bombay.
The quake, which measured seven-point-nine on the Richter scale, razed entire towns and villages and left more than 20-thousand people dead and millions homeless.
5/04/01 21:10:40 | ABC Radio Australia News
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