KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has urged one and all to abide by the lockdown order the government has announced in view of the COVID-19 risk.
The KMC has also appealed that only the genuine helpless, destitute and needy workers to claim for the relief, citing that even people who can afford daily essentials were also found taking the relief materials meant for the utterly needy people.
KMC has started distributing relief to the needy people and families since Wednesday to alleviate the difficulty these people and families are facing during the lockdown.
Issuing an appeal, KMC Mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya said some sporadic acts of defiance of the two-week lockdown declared by the government have been reported.
He has urged people to strictly abide by the lockdown orders. Mayor Shakya also informed that the metropolis has started distributing relief to the helpless people who do not have anybody to look after them, to the people without any means of income or inherited property, those sheltered at old-age home, protection homes, temples, monasteries and mosques, people without any permanent source of income and those who have hand-to-mouth existence within the metropolis.
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