Considering the gravity of the current situation, District Board member Bharat Yadav of Govindpur panchayat distributed food kits – consisting of rice, flour, oil, tea leaves, and sugar among other things – to the residents of slum areas of the thermal city and other needy people amid the nationwide lockdown-2 to check the spread of the coronavirus.
He said the people are being made aware of social distancing amongthem and they are being discouraged to come out of their houses in view of coronavirus, which has affected 10 persons in Bokaro.
Yadav, a member of the Zila-Parishad, said: “We had started with 100 kits but now it has gone up to around 200. We prepare it ourselves for distribution.
On this occasion mainly Ramchandra Paswan, Dasaratha Yadav, Shivkumar, Md. Raja, Tarun Gupta, Anand Yadav, Shri Bhagwan Yadav, Vishal Kumar, Sumit Kumar etc. were present.