RAJSHAHI, April 21, 2020 (BSS) – Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is distributing rice to 21,000 jobless and other less-income families in its 30 wards to minimize their hardship caused by the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).
As a gift of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, RCC has been reaching 10 kilograms of rice at the doorstep of each of the beneficiary family simultaneously since April 17 last.
RCC Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton said the government has allocated 210 tonnes of rice for distribution among the targeted poor families to handle the present situation.
“We have also dispensed another 123 tonnes of rice among 12,300 hand-to-mouth families in the city from the government allocation earlier,” he added.
On the other hand, RCC has provided foodstuffs to around 45,000 daily wage-earning and other hand-to mouth families in two phases to cope with the present troubled situation.
In the first phase, each of 20,000 families was given ten kilograms of rice and one kilogram of pulse while each of another 25,000 households was given five kilograms of rice, two kilograms of potato and one kilogram of pulse through creating a stock of 100 tonnes of rice and 20 tonnes of pulse from the city’s affluent persons for distribution.
The mayor said the city corporation had raised a stock of 100 tonnes of rice and 20 tonnes of pulse from the city’s affluent persons for the distribution purposes.
The corporation also distributed 60 tonnes of rice among 200 destitute people in each of the 30 wards after receiving those from the government as a part of the government’s instant humanitarian support to mitigate the economic hardship caused by the coronavirus situation.
“We are seeking more support from the richer class and affluent people for the welfare of the distressed sections of society,” Liton said, adding that many of them are extending support to this end.