India unveils quake aid package
Tangdar valley has proved one of the most inaccessible places
All families hit by last Saturday's earthquake in Indian-administered Kashmir will be given 100,000 rupees ($2,200) to reconstruct damaged homes.
About $1,000 will be distributed immediately, a meeting of officials in Srinagar decided.
On Friday Muslims, who make up nearly 70% of Jammu and Kashmir state's 10m population, were holding special prayers for quake victims.
At least 1,400 people have died in the state, with about 5,000 injured.
Almost 150,000 people there have been made homeless.
The quake has killed at least 25,000 people across north Pakistan and divided Kashmir.
Remote valleys
The Indian officials, led by Ghulam Nabi Azad, the minister of parliamentary affairs, also said 20 community halls would be built across Jammu and Kashmir, each with a capacity of 3,000 people.
However as aid measures were announced, police said they had detained 20 people over the past two days in Srinagar on charges of fraudulently collecting quake relief money.
"We have let off 10 of them after giving them warnings. Ten are still under preventive arrest," deputy inspector-general of police NK Lohia told the BBC.
The authorities have now said only accredited agencies are allowed to collect money and other relief materials for quake victims.
On Friday, special prayers were held in mosques across Indian-administered Kashmir, led by a service at the main Jamia Masjid mosque in Srinagar.
Chief cleric and moderate separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq urged businesses to close for three hours to join the prayers.
Shelter needed
While aid is now getting to badly hit areas such as Uri on the Line of Control that separates divided Kashmir, some remote valleys were still struggling to get any help.
Many villagers in the Tangdar valley, a five-hour drive from Srinagar up steep mountain roads, had to walk for miles to find any aid.
Seven villages are still almost inaccessible.
Sunil Dutt, a senior police officer, told Associated Press some aid had reached Tangdar town, 150km (94 miles) north of Srinagar, but that residents were hoarding it.
"Relief is being looted. They are keeping it from people down here," Mr Dutt said.
With so many homeless, relief workers face a struggle to supply shelter before the harsh Himalayan winter sets in.
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