Two food vehicles flagged off in Jhansi

TNN | Apr 7, 2020, 04:14 IST

Two vehicles carrying ration packets being flagged off

Jhansi : Police on Monday flagged off two vehicles carrying ration packets for distributing them among the poor and the needy throughout the district. The initiative had been taken by the Jhansi police following problems being faced by the people due to the lockdown.
The vehicles, containing the dry ration packets enough to suffice for a week for a family ,were flagged off from the Elite crossing by SSP Jhansi, D Pradeep Kumar. Each packet contains 10 kg flour, 5 kg rice, 5 kg pulses, 5 kg potato, 2 kg onion, 1 kg sugar, one litre of cooking oil and 1 kg of salt. “While one vehicle will take rounds of the rural area, the other one will cover the city limits”, the SSP said.
He said some social organizations have also come forward to donate mostly in kind. Police have also issued a local helpline so that donors and the needy both can contact each other to get the ration, he added.
The SSP himself had distributed 25 packets in Bhattagaon while SP (city) Rahul Srivastava went to village Murari in Babina block, a tribal settlement, and distributed 50 packets.
Talking to TOI, the SSP said, “We have a target to distribute around 100 packets per day, and have a buffer stock of ten days”. More and more donors are coming forward with ration packets, he added.