Sunam residents collect 1,175 quintal of wheat for food bank

Sangrur, April 29

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Sunam residents have created Shaheed Udham Singh Food Bank. On the first day, 175 quintal of wheat were collected. A committee under the supervision of the SDM will run the bank.

Sunam Congress leader Daman Thind Bajwa and area residents have taken the responsibility of collecting wheat from the constituency.

“This is a first-of-its-kind food bank in Punjab formed amid Covid-19 crisis. I have donated 21 quintal of wheat and in total, 175 quintal were collected on day one. Many farmers of the area have announced to donate wheat. We would store the collected wheat at a flour mill in Sunam. Then a committee will run the bank and distribute flour,” said Bajwa, Sunam Halqa incharge of Congress.

Bajwa, along with her husband Harman Bajwa, has been requesting the area residents to donate wheat. Residents of Chathe Sekhwa, Balwad Kalan, Shahpur, Arhtiya associations of Sunam and Cheema, market committees of Cheema and Sunam have come forward to support the initiative. — TNS