Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 26: Former Minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today said that we can’t neglect the needy people during Coronavirus outbreak, asking Govt to help out those affected the most by the pandemic.
He said it was the Government’s responsibility to ensure that not a single citizen goes hungry, adding Government should provide each needy person ration at home.
Bhalla demanded Central Government to implement relief package for the “poorest of the poor” hit hard by the loss of jobs and income as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak, a lump sum amount as cash transfer into the accounts of the needy. “For the time being, the government’s first priority should be to help the weakest sections of society when businesses, large and small, and the middle class are clamouring for mega relief measures, suited to their needs, due to the significant economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic,” Bhalla said.
He showed serious concern over the Industry, Trade and Commerce of Jammu & Kashmir which was presently facing its biggest and worst economic challenge with larger and combined effect from August-2019 lockdown and COVID-19 crisis.
Bhalla said that a six-week nationwide lockdown to facilitate effective physical distancing, coupled with expansion of core public health measures such as detection, isolation and tracing contact of COVID-19 positive people, helped greatly in breaking the transmission and that’s why the death toll here is lower than other countries.
Bhalla demanded sealing of all entry and exit points and asked the concerned to restrict the public movement so that the individuals coming from the affected areas can be restrained.
Meanwhile, fulfilling duties and responsibilities of leader of poor and down-trodden in this hour of crisis, former Minister today continued distributing Ration and other necessary items among needy and poor families of Gandhi Nagar Constituency.
The ration items were distributed at Sunjwan in Green Valley, Munirbad, and Friend Colony.
Prominent among those who accompanied Bhalla included Corporater Sobhat Ali, Sarpanch Hafiz Ullah, Bittu Sharma, Block President Jatinder Singh Chib, Ch Putto, GS Sodhi, Naresh Kumar, Rani Choudhary, Suresh Kumar, Hafiz Khan and Pappy Choudhary.
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