DSGMC launches ‘Langar on Wheels’ for migrants

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 18

The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee on Monday launched community kitchen initiative called “Langar on wheels” (community kitchen) for migrant labourers at around ten locations in the national capital region, the committee said.

The initiative, set up at inter-state check points, covers Delhi’s borders and also areas such as Noida, Ghaziabad, Seelam Puri, and Sahadra areas, the DSGMC said in a press statement.

“This facility is being introduced to provide food and water to the migrant labourers walking back to their villages from metro cities to ensure they get nutritious, healthy and fresh food and water on the way back to their homes” DSGMC president Manjinder Singh Sirsa said.

“The volunteers of DSGMC are distributing food packets to railways passengers in Shramik Trains at New Delhi Railways Station, Old Delhi Railways Station, Nizammudin, Anand Vihar Railways station, etc, etc depending on the route of the train and demand for the food packets,” he said.

Lack of income because of a nationwide lockdown and dwindling finances have sent millions of migrants from across the country, including the Delhi-NCR region, back to their villages. While many take the special trains that Indian Railways have launched for them, many others either walk or cycle back home hundreds of kilometres, exposing them to hunger and exhaustion.