Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Jun 15: Karnataka state BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel, said that his party did excellently as far as discharging its social responsibility is concerned, by distributing food packs, provisions, masks and sanitisers to 1.52 crore people from the state who were facing a crisis.
He was addressing the 'Karnataka Jan Samvad Rally' organised at the state BJP office on Sunday June 14 through virtual video conference.
Nalin said that under instructions from the national president of the party, every BJP worker took upon himself the task of meeting social responsibility by providing food to a minimum of five persons. "Through this act, they have wiped out the tears from the eyes of the migrant workers. Every MLA, minister, zilla panchayat member and corporator has voluntarily taken part in this drive and joined hands in extending this service," he explained.
He said that the state BJP had distributed food packets to 1.52 crore people, provisions to 49 lac people, as well as masks and sanitisers to 65 lac people. "We also manufactured masks for 1.9 lac persons, extended help to six lac persons through helpline, got 64.21 lac persons under PM Care and saw that 6.03 lac people uploaded Aarogya Setu app. The NGOs in the state, Maths and other entities have wholeheartedly extended help towards controlling coronavirus," he narrated.
Kateel added that information about Rs 20 lac crore package announced by the central government under the movement to use indigenous goods towards helping the nation to become self-reliant, the achievements of the government through the schemes announced by the state government through anti-corona measures, and also have reached 16 lac people through door-to-door visits.
He said that the state government was the first to announce package of Rs 5,000 each to 18.5 lac people including auto drivers, taxi drivers, weavers, barbers etc who were affected by lockdown, and Rs 20,000 package to floriculturists, and through waiving electricity bills in respect of small and micro industries.
He stated that India, by controlling coronavirus better than the USA, Italy, and other countries, has made other countries to look towards India in awe. He said that the people of the country, like the time they joined hands with Mahatma Gandhi in the freedom movement, have now joined hands with PM Modi when restrictions on movement were introduced to regulate coronavirus.