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Chandigarh MCC Extends Support to 16 Individuals from J&K Stuck In Lockdown

Chandigarh MCC Extends Support To 16 Individuals from J&K Stuck In Lockdown.

The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh has extended support to 16 individuals from Jammu & Kashmir, who sell their specialities of carpets, shawls and Kashmiri’s woollens in the city.

With the directions of Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, the DAY-NULM wing of MCC with the assistance of Association of Professional Social Workers and Development Practitioners (APSWDP) along with Swarmani Youth Welfare Association has outreached them with wheat flour, oats, rice, tea, sugar, salt, spices and electric heater for them.

The team has also offered individual and group counselling to all the persons on engagement, coping mechanism and managing stress during a crisis.

These individuals were stranded at Mori Gate, Manimajra due to sudden nationwide lockdown amid COVID-19 which is a biological emergency.

The team accessed their problems, need and conduct thermal screening to know their preliminary status of body temperatures too.

All the persons have cooperated with the deployed team of volunteers. The social development wing, MCC deputed NITI AYOG empanelled civil society organization for making an outreach on high priority under intimation to Secretary State Legal Services Authority, Jammu & Kashmir.

On connecting to Mr Faizan H Iqbal, Secretary SLSA, J&K, he thanked and appreciated immediate and timely assistance to stranded persons.

Also See: Result of classes IX & XI to be declared on 20th April

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