KIRTIPUR: The Kirtipur Municipality has formed a rapid action group to ensure that nobody staying in the municipality will have to face hunger due to the nationwide lockdown.
The group said it will manage food for needy daily wagers, economically vulnerable citizens and households and the poor who have come from several districts, and have been hit hard by the lockdown.
Deputy Mayor of the Municipality, Saraswoti Rijal informed that the municipality has arranged for home delivery of food by contacting people from the afore-mentioned groups.
“We have managed food grain and foodstuff to the needy by forming a rapid action group. We have been delivering food to the home of consumers who call us saying they do not have food,” according to deputy mayor Rijal, who is also the spokesperson for the municipality.
She said that the municipality has distributed the first and second phase relief goods to such people.
Rijal, who is also the coordinator of the rapid action group, said they distributed relief package to 4,100 needy households in the first phase and to 3,575 households in the second phase.
Meanwhile, a group of Nepalis living in the US has provided Rs 200 thousand to the COVID-19 Prevention and Relief Emergency Fund set up by the municipality.
Thirty seven people living in various US cities contributed Rs 268,000 to the Fund.
Similarly, various organisations and individuals have deposited Rs 2.5 million in the Emergency Fund as of Tuesday.
The municipality has itself deposited Rs 15 million in the Fund. The municipality has also announced subsidy to the farmers in the municipality for attaining self-sufficiency in agriculture.
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