In the wake of the nation-wide lockdown by the Centre and the state government until April 21, following the coronavirus outbreak, impoverished people, daily wage earners, stranded and differently able-persons are finding it difficult to survive and are starving.
Keeping in view of their hardships, Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday appealed to all social organisations, volunteers and civil society members to come forward to assist these people with food, water and other relief measures.
The state social welfare department and a numbers of social organisations have come forward to assist the people in need, following the CM’s call.
In the capital city Raipur, near the railway station, more than 150 impoverished people residing within the premises, are being provide with food by good Samaritans and members of civil society organisations.
According to Mahasamund panchayat and social welfare department deputy director Dharmendra Sahu following a call from the district administration, a number of social organisations and volunteers of the NSS have come forward to distribute hot food to the destitute of the city.
“Elderly people and stranded daily wage earners in the city, were given hot food, he said. “But before they were fed, they were asked to clean their hands with sanitizers and only after which the food was served to them,” Sahu said.