Sundargarh Sadar BJP MLA Kusum Tete not only has been On Monday, she opened one migrant cooperation centre, for the benefit of migrant workers who are returning to their native States through Sundargarh.
Tete has been creating awareness among the people of her constituency to fight Covid 19 ever since the lockdown was imposed and also distributing them soaps, masks, grocery items, cooked food and also collecting funds for PM Cares.
Tete after collecting Rs 2, 39,661, sent the sum to the PM Cares recently in first phase and still collecting more funds. She is also addressing the plight of the people of her constituency.
Sources said on May 17, Tete with some BJP workers had gone to Kopasinga village under Lankahuda panchayat on Saturday for collecting funds for PM cares. Some villagers informed her about their difficulties and while discussing with them, Tete came to know that one Debanand Kamar of Kopasinga village, after falling from a tree, had become physically challenged. She also came to know that Debanand was in need of a wheel chair. She immediately talked to the Sadar BDO Anamika Singh and told her to provide a wheel chair to Debanand.
BDO Singh sent a wheel chair immediately through block employees. The MLA also gave Rs 1,000 as financial assistance to wife of Debanand.
On Monday, Tete gave 25 kg OF rice, 5 kg dal, 5 kg potato, oil and soaps to Debanand’s wife for their use. She also opened a Migrant Cooperation Centre near Banabasi Kalyan Ashram.
It has also been decided that within two days, a sanitiser machine would be installed in the Cooperation Centre and the migrant workers who reach the centre would be sanitised.
On Monday, hundreds of workers who were going to West Bengal from Rayagada, Balangir and Sambalpur through Sundargarh stayed there for some time and took lunch there.