KHULNA, April 14, 2020 (BSS) – As part of the government’s instant ‘humanitarian support’ declared by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Talukder Abdul Khaleque distributed food items among 2,000 destitute families in different ward’s of the city yesterday evening.
Each family received a sac containing 10-kg of rice, 2-kg of potato, one kg each of onion, edible oil and pulse, two pieces of soaps and 500-gram each of iodized salt and flattened rice.
General Secretary of City Awami League (AL) MDA Babul Rana and ward councilors accompanied him at that time.
Besides, Khulna divisional administration, district administration, Khulna City Corporation, Bangladesh Navy Khulna region, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP), Coast Guard Khulna, local Awami League (AL) leaders, socio-cultural activists as well as non-government and volunteer organisations continue distributing essential foods among the needy, jobless, destitute and poor people to mitigate the hardship caused by the outbreak of corona virus.