Dhan Guru Ramdas Langar Sewa Sansthan ensures nobody goes hungry

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 8

What began as a humble initiative to serve food to the needy in government hospitals amid the pandemic, the langar started by Dhan Guru Ramdas Langar Sewa Sansthan has now picked up momentum and is extended to nearly 32 hospitals across the state. For the past two years, the free food service is being served by the society to the poor. In the absence of ‘Sanjhi Rasoi’ that provided food to people in the hospital at just Rs 10, the Dhan Guru Ramdas Langar Sewa ensures that no body remains hungry in the hospital, specially the poor patients and their attendants.

“On a daily basis, nearly 500-600 people are offered meals here at the hospital. From offering rajma rice to roti sabji, we make sure that the visitors in the hospital are provided nutritious food. The sewa starts early in morning and remains till 4 pm,” said Davinder Singh, one of the workers distributing langar. He added, not only patients but anyone could have the free of cost meal.

The menu of the food usually include breakfast and lunch these days and most of the visitors are acquainted with Dhan Guru Ramdas Langar Sewa Society.

Buta Singh, who started the langar sewa along worth his brother, said the service has now spread across various cities. “There is hardly any government hospitals or community health centre in Amritsar, Ludhiana and Jalandhar where our mobile teams don’t reach with cooked food. We have 28 mobile vans which are used for langar sewa only. With the aim to offer free food to poor people in hospitals, we started this service. We are giving cooked nutritious food to visitors inside the Civil Hospital. For every district we cook food for nearly 10,000 people. The langar sewa is not limited to hospitals only, we cover bus stand, railways stations and villages too”, added Buta Singh (45), a resident of Hoshiarpur.

The cooking process starts early in the morning under the supervision of Buta and large machines are used to chop and peel vegetables and for cooking chapatis.

During the lockdown too, the society offered food to lakhs of people across the region.