Deputy Commissioner launches free meal service

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 28

Varinder Kumar Sharma, Deputy Commissioner (DC), Jalandhar, launched the free meal service for poor and underprivileged at the Phillaur Civil Hospital today.

Addressing the gathering, Sharma said an NGO, Dhan Guru Ram Dass Langar Sewa Society, would render the service free of cost, during which three meals a day would be provided free to people.

He said the service would begin at 7 am and people would be served tea, biscuits, rusks, buns or porridge.

The DC informed that rice or chapati, along with vegetables and pulses, would be served in the afternoon and in the evening chapati or rice would be served with vegetables. He said the service would be available free of cost during the entire week.

Sharma said not only patients, but anyone could eat the meal free of cost. He lauded the efforts of Satnam Singh for the cause, who was rendering the same service in Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Mukerian and Dasuya Civil Hospitals. The Deputy Commissioner said the move would help people in getting nutritious food free of cost.

Sharma assured fulsome support and co-operation to the Dhan Guru Ram Dass Langar Sewa Society in the noble cause.

He said the administration would leave no stone unturned to help the NGO.

Sub-Divisional Magistrate Rajesh Sharma, Civil Surgeon Dr Rajesh Kumar Bagga, SMO Dr Jatinder Singh, among others, were present.

Phillaur: Jalandhar Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma; along with Civil Surgeon, Dr Rajesh Bagga; Rajesh Sharma, SDM, Phillaur and Dr Jatinder Singh, Senior Medical Officer, Phillaur; inaugurated a community kitchen sponsored by Guru Ram Dass Langar Sewa Society at the Civil Hospital on Thursday.

Hoshiarpur-based Guru Ram Dass Langar Sewa Society had started serving food to needy persons/patients at hospitals of Gurdaspur, Batala, Mukerian, Dasuya, Tanda, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Phagwara and PGI, Chandigarh, from February 1.

Buta Singh, organiser of the society said: “The society serves food twice a day to more than 80,000 people daily.” “Another community kitchen will be started at Nakodar on Friday,” he added.