Following the directives of chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, free food is being provided to more than 1.85 lakh impoverished people and daily wage workers in all the districts across the state with the help of local administration and voluntary organisations.
In view of the problems faced by the impoverished people and the daily wage workers due to the lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus, the state administration has made arrangements to provide free food and ration in all the districts of the state, an official statement said.
Local voluntary organizations and donors are also assisting the state government in the initiative, it said.
For the people living in the relief camps that have been set up migrant workers from other states apart from Chhattisgarh, the district administration is providing free food, tea and snacks and medical facilities, officials said.