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FOOD-DISTRIBUTION-KHULNA (with picture)
KCC mayor distributes food among 3,567 destitute people
KHULNA, May 06, 2020 (BSS) – Mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Talukder Abdul Khaleque has distributed foodstuffs among 3,567 needy, jobless, low-income workers and destitute people to minimize the present adverse impact of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the city yesterday afternoon.
He dispensed 645 Maunds of rice, and others essential relief materials among them at different wards in the city aimed at mitigating their financial hardship amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation by strictly maintaining physical distancing.
Each of the beneficiaries received a sac containing 7-kg rice, potato, onion, soya-bin oil, pulse, soaps and iodized salt as a part of the government’s instant humanitarian support programme.
General Secretary of Khulna city Awami League MDA Babul Rana, word councilors, among others, accompanied the mayor.
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