COVID-19 pandemic: Taking care of people beyond the fencing

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

SILCHAR: In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, humanity and kindness have come to the fore across the country notwithstanding certain aberrations here and there. The valley of Barak and its people have set the best of example in standing by the needy, poor and downtrodden whose sources of livelihood stand blocked. NGOs, social, religious and even political, have reached out to the target groups even beyond the border fencing. One such religious conglomerate, Sri Sri Gobinda Jiu, Radhabinode Jiu and Radharaman Jiu Ashrams, has been relentlessly working for distributing essential food items among them.

The people of Govindapur village of Karimganj district, living on 'no man's land' and the other side of the border with their entry and exit gates locked 24x7 by BSF, find their life miserable, almost cocooned and isolated. When the Radharaman Jiu Ashram came to distribute essential food items to the 50 families of the village, smiles were writ large on their faces. Along with them, 10 more families of Tegua Kuarbhog too got the relief packets to make them feel they are not isolated from the mainland.

The jawans of 07 BSF Bn extended all necessary help to the NGO volunteers. Inmates of the two villages came out one by one to receive the food items through the gate under the vigilance of the BSF. Arup Roy, publicity secretary of the NGO, said, "This is their third exercise to stand by the helpless victims of partition who have been forced by the cruel fate to live in distress." This human work will continue till lockdown period. So far, 300 families have been benefited by the benevolence of Radharaman Ashram of Subhashnagar. Members of NGO who were involved in distribution of relief materials include Tarun Choudhury, Alok Roy, Jayanta Dey, Sudip Das, Ruhan Malakar and Ripan Paul. 

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