Legal services authority arranges food for Kashmir Valley migrants, NE pupils in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 14

The State Legal Services Authority (SLSA), UT, has helped Kashmiri labourers and North East (NE) students by providing them food and ration amid the lockdown in the tricity under the guidance of Justice Jaswant Singh, Executive Chairman, SLSA.

As per the request received from the Jammu and Kashmir Legal Services Authority on April 11, there were around 15 Kashmiri labour migrants who were without food and ration. The SLSA with the collaboration of Vivek Trivedi, convener, Association of Professional Social Workers and Development Practitioners (APSWDP), and Gopal Attri, para legal volunteer, provided ration to the migrants. Later today, a food heater was also provided to the migrants by the para legal volunteer.

On April 11, the SLSA received an email from Mizoram Legal Services Authority to help all North East students stranded in different states. In pursuance to this, Rajeshwar Singh, Law Officer of SLSA, contacted the North East students asking about their requirements of food/ration. Pursuant to this, arrangement for food/langar for 120 students stranded in Nayagaon was made through a gurdwara in Nayagaon by the efforts of Manjit Malhotra, para legal volunteer.