Bengaluru, Apr 4: As calamity struck the nation in the form of coronavirus, many philanthropists have generously opened their wallets to sustain the urban poor, especially the migrant labourers in the city and elsewhere in Karnataka.
These individuals either directly or through organisations opened up their kitchens to ensure that no one goes to bed hungry in this distressing time.
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, the nodal agency to feed urban poor, responded positively to requests by these organisations and individuals to supply food to the needy on their behalf.
"We had been serving food through our Indira canteens, which we continue to do even now. However, many philanthropists and corporates have come forward to feed the needy," the BBMP joint commissioner Sarfaraz Khan told reporters.
According to BBMP, Indira canteens used to provide two lakh meals a day on normal occasions.
However, since the lockdown has been clamped, the number swelled by almost 50 per cent.
"On Thursday alone, we served 2.85 lakh food, which comprises breakfast, lunch and breakfast," a Palike officer said.
The major aid came from Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO) and Azim Premji Foundation.
While JITO is feeding around 22,000 people, Azim Premji Foundation is taking care of 20,000 people.
Sajjanraj Mehta, an office bearer of JITO, told reporters that his organisation has been providing packaged cooked food since March 27.
"We got in touch with Bengaluru Mayor M Gautham Kumar, Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao and the BBMP commissioner B H Anil Kumar. According to their list, 27,000 food packets were required daily," Mehta told.
The JITO members have arranged vehicles of their respective businesses to transport food packets to different locations as part of the campaign named as 'COVID-19 manav seva'.
The organisation has also decided to utilise the kitchen of Princess Golf, a marriage hall on Palace Grounds here to prepare food.
Palike officials said on Thursday alone JITO supplied 53,000 meals.
"We asked them to cover migrant labourers in those areas where Indira Canteen could not reach. We mapped the cluster and provided them info. Now, they are distributing it there," they said.
Another organisation engaged in charitable work is ISKCON Bengaluru.
Ever since the lockdown, it has been working in various parts of India providing food to various people.
"We are providing materials such as rice, wheat flour, Daal, oil, vegetables with long shelf life, salt, sugar and spices. Each packet can sustain for at least 21 days," Madhu Pandit Dasa, president of ISKCON Bengaluru.
The organisation has set a target to cover at least two lakh people but so far it has reached out to 30,000 people including 25,000 in Bengaluru alone.
"We are feeding about 50,000 people in Delhi, with the Telangana government we are feeding about 40,000 people in Hyderabad, about 10,000 people in Ahmedabad in association with the Gujarat government," Dasa told.
According to BBMP, other organisations providing food to the needy are KMFY, TVS Group, Vimal Bhandari, Radisson Blue Atria Hotel, Hitech Ecowood, Mohammed Shajid, Prestige Group.
Wipro Ltd also pitched in to feed the poor by opening up its industrial kitchen infrastructure.
In a statement, Global Head- Operations of the company Hariprasad Hegde said the humanitarian crisis we are faced with as part of the Covid-19 crisis has multiple dimensions to it, of which the need to deliver cooked meals to the stranded migrant workers and other vulnerable communities is probably the most critical and immediate one.
Recognising this, Wipro has decided to use the industrial kitchen infrastructure in our facilities to provide cooked meals, he said.
This kicked off on April 2 with the delivery of 43,000 meals from our Bangalore facility in Kodathi to the government.
"We have made use of our own procurement logistics to source the food provisions. This is a collaborative process, with the government taking responsibility for the logistics of last mile delivery to the communities that need it the most,” he said.
In the case of Bangalore, the Karnataka government has come forward to provide this kind of complementary delivery support. We are reaching out to other state governments and local administrations for similar efforts." he said.
The book written by one of the founders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1946 is now being re-issued by a Mumbai-based right-wing trust.
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I'm a Christian Anglo-Saxon, and I find the idea of this book to be wonderful. For me, it is beautiful to envision Jesus kneeling down to worship Lord Shiva. It is not disrespectful to Jesus at all to believe this - it shows that he was a reverent and faithful believer. As a Christian, I can understand why the people who wrote the Bible might have wanted to cover up certain aspects of Jesus's life. I love the idea of Jesus and his followers uniting with the Indian people in a shared religious heritage.
its not fully acceptable but some of them are true in that book
To increase bjp vote banks they are trying to include Christians under their belt. Like they says jains, , buddist and sikhs are the part of Hindu religion. Which is totally wrong. No jains , budhist, Sikhs, worships Hindu gods.
Writer used to write stories for ram gopal verma. After the flop of RGV sholay remake version of Aag, writer lost his job and published books on jesus to earn money for his livelihood.
thank god he dint say bible was written by waalmiki.
If Savarkar's brother's thinking was so skewed, just imagine how skewed was Savarkar's thinking??? Bade mian tho bade mian, chotay mian subhanallah!!
Dear BABARAO
Kindly give your Script to Sanjay Lila Bansali (SLB).so that he can Make a Comedy Film base on your Script.We will recommend SLB to introduce Subramania Swami as the HERO of this Movie.
Stop playing with the feeling of Christian And Muslim Who respect Jesus Christ.It wont suite for your (RSS) Stupid Idiology.I thought some one will be there among you will certain amount of So called Common sense But where ???? All Same.
GROW UP DUDE
Yes, this is correct. Everyone in the world are Hindus as Hinduis is the only true religion. All the countries around the world were ruled by Hindu kings. white house was vishnu temple, israel knesste was Ram Mandir, Vatican was sita mandir, Bejing was capital of Shiva, tokyo was rest room of Lakshmi, Australia was ruled over by vishnu, Africa was governed by Krishna. Veer Sarkar fore father was ambassador of all the gods and he was travelling in the air without plane.
Really it was good joke... cant stop laughing...he should be awarded with Nobel Prize.... God Bless him ...
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Please don't release that book and cause one more imbalance in the community.Tired of seeing killing people in the name of 'GOD' - GOD is just a Invisible Power, nothing else other than this ,we have given him different forms and name and to relieve our mind from stress and to share thoughts n desire we created a god.Once you purge something from mind you will feel relieved.
#NoWarKnowPeace
we are in the Lent season only i can say is
\Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing\""
all the jokes in book is good and the best one is Jesus was Tamilian and his complexion was dark.....OHH brothers jesus was very fair and lovely prophet of islam.
why all chaddi leaders at last becomes mad ?
ha......ha....
Tomorrow he will say Washington was a hindu land and White house was Shiva temple.....and Obama was a Tamil Brahmin....
Please book a seat for him in Kankanady..........ha...ha...
Whatever, ultimately he proved that Brahmins were Non veg eaters, especially beef & pork. And even they can consume alcohol.
Now Subramanya swamy may link his family tree to Jesus christ.
BED TIME STORIES......
loughing of the day from RSS yeak yeak yeak
The RSS creatures spreading their wings to the community of Christians and provoking them. These unknown writers RSS have free time for frictions and fabricate. Earlier they were targeting Tajmahal as Tej Mahal, built by RSS king Tej singh. Kutub Minar built by their RSS king Shaktisena so on. And they are spreading romours that the black stone at Haram, Makkah, as Shiva Linga etc.
They have plans to rewrite the history of India for their needs, in many schools run by them are teaching hate history of India, that's the reason they are in collusion with HRD ministry do innovations.
Damm it RSS.
HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA........
Help I can't stop, I think i will go to hospital, My stomach is getting pain.
HAA HAA HAA............................................HAA HAA
This book is the ultimate proof irreparable idiocy/ stupidity of RSS.
Secondly, how the publishers and printers printed it ?
This community will never improve nor succeed, they continue battling until their stupid community remain at large.
We all respect many Hindus, most of them are indeed good.
but this disproportionate venomous creatures spoiling names of good Hindus.
Indeed Hinduism has become a culture, not a religion.
Jusus Peace be upon him was Jewish, he was born in Palestine,
He has no relation whatsoever with man made religion the Hinduism. He was not Tamil, nor Brahmin,
He was miraculously born without father to his mother the Maryam may God be pleased with all of these. He was against wrong belief of plural God. Hinduism has highest number of Gods than its followers. Where as worshipping plural God is totally against true religions of God like Islam and Christianity.
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Jesus is one of the mightiest Prophets sent by ALLAH to the face of the earth. If any Muslim does not believe in Jesus pbuh then he is not a MUSLIM.
QURAN explain on all prophetS of God:
Say (O Muslim) \We believe in ALLAH and that which has been sent down to us and that which has been sent down to Abraham, Ismail, Ishaque, Jacob, and to Al-Asbat and that which has been given to Moses and JESUS and that which has been given to the prophets from their LORD. We make no DISTINCTION between any of them and to him we have Submitted (in ISLAM) (Quran - chapter 2 : 136)
The devils which is also a creation of ALLAH will try to claim thru LIES and DECEPTION... But ALLAH says never fear the devils and seek help from HIM. Devils are smart in LIES and Cheddis are following his agenda. which will take them together to HELL which will be eternal...
Those who support such ideology of destruction should learn about ALLAH and his creation the Shaitan from the jinns who has been FOOLING people who are far from the TRUTH>"
RSS PLEASE GIVE US BASE FOR HINDU RELIGION .,...
Hahahaha...many more things to come till Modi in throne, my dear christian brothers don't get exited. All nuts and bolts of sanghis are removed...HAHHAHHAAH
Hellow Christian bhai Wake up and Answer them...........................
how u came to know now. good u came from rss university?
Jesus is not a GOD not Hindu but He is Messenger of Allah
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