Even as officials were despairing about where to start, the young men went to the local satellite telephone exchange and managed to get limited facilities for incoming calls fixed. Those lines have since been a source of solace for both the locals and their relatives and friends both in India and abroad, who have been anxious to know about the situation in the town, the worst hit in the quake that has left anywhere between 25,000 and 50,000 people dead in Gujarat's Kutch district, bordering Pakistan. I am doing this as a social service as this is the most important way to give comfort to the people.
Information is the most important thing.
People are so worried about everything. We need to give information. Dozens of people were waiting to receive calls, having passed the information to their relatives through previous callers about the existence of the phone lines.