The National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) Limited, India’s premier hydropower company on Saturday airlifted 2.6 metric tonnes of medical materials to Manipur from New Delhi in the wake of the Covid 19 pandemic and 21-day national lockdown.
Congress leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi but out af the Centre over the issue of migrants workers stranded on state borders due to the 21-day lockdown.
Social distancing goes for a toss as people in South Delhi flout 21day nationwide lockdown. People queue up in long lines to collect handouts of basic foods. Check out the pictures...
The Delhi Police will issue passes for its citizens after verifying their details. A citizen has to download the form from the Delhi Police App and the person has to fill it with full details. After verifying it, the police will issue the pass for 24 or 48 hours. The person will be able to move in Delhi-NCR region. There are several residents who want to meet their relatives in urgency. This facility will ease the burden of cops to check people if they have a valid document.
Migrant workers in very large numbers at Delhi's Anand Vihar bus terminal, to board buses to their respective home towns and villages. They have walked to the bus terminal on foot from different parts of the city.
In Delhi, newspaper vendors are caught between customers and coronavirus. The distribution system makes them pay for the paper, but the pandemic keeps them from recovering the cost from the customer.
"Send us back home" – exasperated migrant workers holed up in dingy rooms in south Delhi's Khirki village, which is just a stone throw away from a complex that houses the capital's three busy malls, say. The migrant workers have been battling through the unclean narrow bylanes, limited food supply and policemen who do not allow them to step out even to buy essential items.
They are more than 480 in number and are staying at the Delhi airport but in no hurry to leave the place now. They are the staff of DIAL, the operator of the country's largest airport, who are keeping the aerodrome operational for cargo as well as special flights and air force operations apart from carrying out sanitisation work amid the coronavirus outbreak, an official said.
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The central government has asked the highway authorities and toll operators to help out migrants who are walking home.The pandemic has affected 944 in India with 775 of them active cases. There have been 20 deaths
The Delhi government has arranged to serve lunch and dinner to the needy in 325 schools in Delhi, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday amid reports of people going hungry without access to food during the ongoing nationwide lockdown.
