Making the ongoing lockdown more stringent, the movement of people has been restricted to a new notch between Delhi-UP border.
With this, people, especially migrant labourers, are feeling the heat of “a month” of lockdown. Proving to be quite a helping hand, Inspector Rajeev Kumar, the Station House Officer (SHO), of East Delhi’s Madhu Vihar police station, has come to the rescue of these stranded poor who need food to survive during these tough times. Kumar is not leaving any stone unturned to feed the needy, particularly the toddlers in his area since the lockdown was implemented. He is providing them milk and baby food too.
To inspire, reassure and educate people, especially migrant labourers on combating the deadly pathogen, the SHO not only provides two time meals to around 1300-1400 people but also makes sure that no toddler be deprived of milk.
Talking to The Pioneer, Kumar said, when the lockdown started, Delhi Police faced massive exodus of migrants from Anand vihar inter state bus terminal. Migrant laborers were faced with the very existence since they were jobless and penniless.
"So to develop a sense of security I involved beat staff of my area and identified and made the data of around 1300 daily wage labourers who were living in JJ clusters of Hasanpur, IP extensions district park, Allah colony, Majboor Nagar and Chander Vihar Colony," said the SHO.
"We have always heard from our elders that every one need 'do june ki roti", so we provide meals twice a day to these people along with the help good samaritans," he said
"Further, when I saw toddlers there I realised that, the food which we provide have oil and spices in it and hence it is not good for toddlers so we made a list out of these 1300 people who have small children and arranged half litre milk with small packet of bread. This is going on since day one. Later we roped in Ladli foundation and got lactogen from them and distributed it to the families having toddlers. It will last for atleast 15 days. If needed we will get more," said Kumar.
Kumar reiterated that one thing is clear that this pandemic is regarding health and hygiene and to so we distributed saheli kit comprising of sanitary pads to the women. "Apart from it whenever we are getting hunger calls we are distributing dry ration to the people depending upon the size of the family," he said.
"In this entire process we are following the social distancing norms as we personally visit to the area or the street and ask one member of the family to get the food for the entire family," Kumar added.