RAJSHAHI, July 29, 2020 (BSS) – Some 500 helpless fishermen were given 5,000 kilograms of rice to mitigate their livelihood related hardships being caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The daily wage earning and hand-to-mouth members, who have been affected badly by the pandemic, were given ten kilograms of rice each on Tuesday afternoon.
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) provided the foodstuffs as the gift of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and as a part of the government’s instant humanitarian support to handle the pandemic situation.
City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton opened the rice distribution programme at Ranibazar Munsidanga area saying such type of humanitarian assistance will continue to cope with the troubled situation until its end.
Another 37,315 members of 187 professional bodies were given 278.88 tonnes of rice to lessen their livelihood related hardship earlier in eight phases earlier.
Mayor Liton said the present government under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been working relentlessly to ensure food security to the jobless people amid the present troubled time.
He said there is no crisis of food as the government has sufficient stock and urged the recipients not to be panicked in this regard.
As part of the government’s instant humanitarian assistance, the RCC has, so far, distributed 1,394.85 tonnes of rice, Taka 48.12 lakh in cash and 145 cartons of baby food among the badly affected families as part of the government humanitarian assistance to handle the present troubled situation.
It has also distributed various types of foodstuffs like 325.33 tonnes of rice, 58.68 tonnes of pulse, 58.45 tonnes of potato, 15.08 tonnes of flour, 17 tonnes of fine and aromatic rice, 11.2 tonnes of sugar, 11,250 packets of vermicelli, 39 tonnes of pumpkin and 4.52 tonnes of spinach to tackle the pandemic situation.
The city corporation has been distributing the relief materials among the affected families to tackle the present troubled situation and the assistance will continue until the troubled situation ends.