Congress to kick start new relief activities: Azad

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday urged the government to announce free education for Covid orphans in Navodaya Vidyalayas. She noted that they were the legacy of late PM Rajiv Gandhi.
All India Congress Committee relief task force chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that the party will scale up its Covid relief work from Friday, which marks the death anniversary of the late PM.
In a letter addressed to PM Modi, she said young children losing parents in the pandemic are faced with an uncertain future.
“One of my husband Rajiv Gandhi’s most significant legacies is the network of Navodaya Vidyalayas. It was his dream to make high-quality modern education accessible and affordable to talented youth, predominantly from rural areas,” she wrote. She also added, “I request you to consider providing free education at the Navodaya Vidyalayas to children who have lost either both parents or an earning parent on account of the Covid-19 pandemic. I feel that as a nation, we owe it to them.”
With the idea of scaling up Congress’s relief work, Ghulam Nabi Azad said the party will initiate new activities from Friday.
“The recently constituted task force for relief held a series of meetings with party leaders across the country. It has come up with a plan to kickstart new relief activities, ranging from distribution of masks to medicine kits to start of ambulance services across the states,” Azad said.