Kirtipur municipality forms rapid action group for banishing hunger

Kathmandu - The Kirtipur Municipality has formed rapid action group so that nobody living in the municipality will have to face hunger due to the ongoing lockdown. The group will manage food for the needy daily wagers, economically vulnerable citizens and households and the poor citizens who have come from districts outside Kathmandu, who have been hardest hit by the lockdown. Municipality deputy mayor Saraswoti Rijal said the municipality has arranged for home delivery of food by contacting the people from the afore-mentioned groups facing hardship.

"We have managed food grain and foodstuff to the needy by forming a rapid action group. We have been delivering food to the home of consumers who call us saying they do not have food," deputy mayor Rijal, who is also the spokesperson for the municipality, said. According to her, the municipality has already distributed the first and second phase relief goods to the needy people before starting home-delivery of food.