KHULNA, May 09, 2020 (BSS) – Mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Talukder Abdul Khaleque distributed foodstuffs among 1,300 jobless workers and destitute people to minimize the present adverse impact of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the city yesterday afternoon.
He dispensed 827 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, President of Mongla Customs Clearing and Forwarding Agents Association Md. Sultan Hossain Khan, Chairman of Abdul Barik Foundation Md. Selim and ward councilors, among others, accompanied the mayor.