New Delhi, Jan. 27 :    New Delhi, Jan. 27:  Atal Bihari Vajpayee today released a cheque for Rs 10 crore from the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. He will be visiting the quake-affected areas on Monday. There is, however, no proposal to declare the earthquake, the worst to have hit the country after Independence, as a 'national calamity'. A government spokesman said there was 'no provision for declaring this tragedy as a national calamity. However, the government is putting in a national effort and whatever needs to be done is being done. But the effort has to be pretty big.' Briefing reporters after a meeting of the Crisis Management Group headed by Cabinet secretary T.R. Prasad, agriculture secretary Bhaskar Barua said the amount will be handed over to the Gujarat government. The Prime Minister, who attended the cremation of BJP leader Vijaya Raje Scindia in Gwalior this evening, has also assured the beleaguered Keshubhai Patel government that scarcity will not stand in the way of rescue and relief operations which got underway on a warfooting since this morning. Vajpayee has directed the Indian Air Force (IAF), which is flying in relief material to the state, to airlift injured persons in all the affected parts of the state to hospitals in Ahmedabad, Delhi and Mumbai. Several public sector undertakings have also been asked to provide essential supplies and heavy equipment for relief work. The Centre's focus is on Bhuj, the worst-affected district in Gujarat. Essential supplies are being moved to Bhuj by land. Barua said trucks with relief goods have begun moving on national highway-8A. Though the movement of the trucks is slow, Barua said the 'progress has been encouraging'. Several thousand blankets and tents have reached Bhuj and more will be despatched tonight along with 16 Inmarsat sets. While Rajasthan is sending heavy equipment, Haryana and Punjab are contributing blankets. A team of 50 doctors along with medical supplies have left Mumbai for Bhuj. The army mounted a massive relief and rescue operation with over 4,700 army personnel fanning out in the quake-hit areas. Additional surgical and medical teams with mobile operation theatre facilities and engineering equipment, including heavy duty power generators and trench-digging machines have reached Bhuj, an army spokesman said today. Four surgical teams from Pune and a field ambulance from Bhatinda are working in Bhuj. Special arrangements for the treatment and admission of the injured have been made in all military hospitals in the area. Ninety beds have been provided for the quake victims at Bhuj military hospital whereas 250 beds are available at Ahmedabad military hospital. The CMG also decided and accordingly directed some PSUs like the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to supply generator sets and gas-powered cutting equipment which the state government needs desperately. Food Corporation of India has been asked to prepare and purchase food packets. Indian Railways has been asked to move heavy equipment like bulldozers, earth-movers and cranes. Transport aircraft of the IAF have also carried heavy equipment. Indian Airlines is operating additional flights between Delhi and Ahmedabad and Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Both Indian Airlines and Alliance Air will carry relief material free of cost.