The State administration has taken measures to ensure adequate supply of essential commodities and check over-pricing, hoarding the black marketing of such items in the districts. Necessary directions have been issued to all district magistrates regarding this. In addition to working on these aspects, the Haridwar district administration and the Municipal Corporation of Haridwar (MCH) have taken important steps to assist the daily wagers, poor and destitute citizens. The MCH has shared an account number for those wanting to donate money to assist in such efforts. The corporation is also regularly distributing food packets and ration to the poor and needy people in Haridwar. On Thursday, the municipal commissioner Narendra Bhandari also distributed food packets to the needy.
Assistant municipal commissioner Uttam Singh Negi informed this correspondent that many people want to contribute to the efforts but are unable to do so due to the lockdown.
“That is why we have publicized the Nagar Nigam account number and started getting positive response within a couple of hours,” he said.
The district administration has asked the food and civil supplies department to prepare 5,000 ration packets. District information officer Archana Singh said that 5,000 ration packets are being prepared for daily labourers and the destitute. These will contain five kilogrammes of flour, three kilogrammes of rice, one kilogramme of pulses, one litre of cooking oil, salt, chilli, turmeric and sugar. According to the figures of the district administration, 36,659 daily labourers are registered, out of which 12,601 are construction workers.