Members of Red Cross with ration kits to be distributed in Jaisalmer
JAISALMER: While tourism was affected adversely due to the pandemic and the lockdown, the Langa Manganiyars and Mirasi community, who enthral people with their music, have also suffered a blow to their livelihoods.
Jaisalmer Red Cross at Bayeeya village provided ration items to 60 Manganiyar families. Similarly, the Kabir Yatra committee has sent 40 kits to folk artistes at Barna and Anay villages. Similar is the situation of Pak displaced Dalit craftswomen in Barmer, who are facing a lot of problems.
Sure Sanstha has sent ration items to 200 Pak displaced Dalit craftswomen. Barmer MLA Mewaram Jain and district collector Lok Bandhu flagged off the vehicles carrying relief items.
Sure sanstha joint secretary Lata Kachwah said that for quite a long time, these families do not have any work and due to unemployment, hundreds of families are facing problems. She said that understanding the pain of these families, Sure along with Milak Sangathan has provided ration items to around 200 families in the first consignment. A kit has ration items for two months.
She said that after the partition, a large number of Dalit community left Pakistan and came to India. The women of these Pak displaced Dalit families are talented in handicraft and due to them, the Rajasthan handicrafts are famous abroad. In the border area, the livelihood of maximum families is dependent on handicrafts. MLA Jain praising the efforts of these NGOs said that it is a true public service in the time of crisis.
Lok Bandhu said that people’s livelihoods got affected due to the lockdown, especially those who were on daily wages. The district collector praised the efforts of NGOs and said these were good initiatives to help people facing problems.
On the other hand, Indian Red Cross Society district branch Jaisalmer on Thursday distributed ration items to 60 families of Mirasi community at Bayeeya village. The ration items were handed over to Mirasi community representative Bux Khan Gunasar who distributed them to the selected Mirasi families.
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