Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has started “langar on wheels” (community kitchen) at around 10 location along with Delhi borders and NCR areas like Noida, Ghaziabad, Seelam puri, Sahadra areas etc for providing food and water to the migrant labourers walking back to their villages.
The decision was taken to ensure they get nutritious, healthy and fresh food and water on the way back to their homes, said DSGMC president Manjinder Singh Sirsa President
Sirsa said that mobile langars is being served to around homebound migrant labour going by walk along the main roads connecting from New Delhi to UP areas nearer to the inter-state check posts. “These langar vans with banners highlighting food and water arrangments for standard migrant workers are stationed at different places and all the needy are asked to partake langar while sitting in a nearby convenient place maintaining social distancing and food packets and water bottles are provided to them for use during journey time,” he said.
Sirsa further said that each langar van leaves Gurdwara Bangla Sahib around 9 am morning and ensures that all food material is distributed to the needy people. We rush additional supply in case if there is additional demand at any place
“The volunteers of DSGMC are distributing food packets to railways passengers in Shramik trains at New Delhi Railways Station, Old Delhi Railways Station, Nizammudin, Anand Vihar Railways station etc depending on the route of the train and demand for the food packets,” he said.
The DSGMC has set up food counter at New Delhi Railways station at the request of Indian Railways to provide free drinking water, juices, and biscuit packets to the migrant workers travelling in Shramik trains to their native place and said that DSGMC volunteers will also provide further support and assistance to railways if any such request is made by railways authorities.