Nationwide lockdown: Here's how Prashant Kishor's IPAC serves the people!

Besides staying active on the national political grounds and working closely with the national and regional parties to formulate the strategies during the time of elections, Prashant Kishor's Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) has turned to deliver aid to the affected people to mitigate their burden in the wake of the nationwide lockdown.

The Political Action Committee has launched a virtual kitchen with the view of providing cooked meals to the people. Named as 'Sabki Rasoi', the first of its kind measure from the political team aims to deliver meals to at least 15 lakh people over ten days. 

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Volunteers packing the cooked food to distribute to the affected people in Delhi

 

The hunger relaxing scheme has been rolled out to concentrate mainly on the migrant laborers, daily-wage earners, and the homeless people who have been suffering from the lockdown as the unprecedented embargo has shut all the industries and establishments and put billions into their residences to combat the spread of Coronavirus.

According to the reports, the political committee has distributed 6.7 lakh meals so far across 26 cities in the country and of these, around  1.5 lakh meals have delivered at 70 locations in Delhi. The reports have quoted the statement from the committee's spokesperson in which it has been said that IPAC has made collaboration with three sets of partners in the fields of food preparation, packaging, delivery, and distribution of the meals.

The organization has also been tied up with large kitchen groups that are experts in packing and delivering the foods and also with ground-level entities that have been able and interested to distribute food to 50 or more people in their areas. The reports stated that more than a thousand volunteers and professionals have joined hundreds of locations in the cities in the first level of the scheme. 

According to the official data issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India has reported 7,447 cases that were tested positive for the virus so far as of Saturday morning of which 643 people have recovered and discharged while 239 people have succumbed to the virus.

 

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