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Inside Bangla Sahib Gurdwara's Kitchen, That Feeds Thousands Of Underprivileged People Daily
While the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown has forced people to stay inside their homes, the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has upgraded its mega kitchens to prepare food for over 40,000 needy people across the city. Harbir Singh, in charge of the langar in the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib said, "We are providing food to over 40,000 people every day through our kitchen." Every day 40 people prepare the food, while 20 more load and channelize it. He said the Gurudwara kitchen is following all the precautions, like social distancing protocol, while preparing food. Everyone involved in the kitchen is asked to sanitize their hands properly before entering the kitchen area. Here are some photos from inside Delhi's Bangla Sahib Gurdwara kitchen, that feeds thousands of poor, daily.
While the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown has forced people to stay inside their homes, the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has upgraded its mega kitchens to prepare food for over 40,000 needy people across the city. Harbir Singh, in charge of the langar in the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib said, "We are providing food to over 40,000 people every day through our kitchen." Every day 40 people prepare the food, while 20 more load and channelize it. He said the Gurudwara kitchen is following all the precautions, like social distancing protocol, while preparing food. Everyone involved in the kitchen is asked to sanitize their hands properly before entering the kitchen area. Here are some photos from inside Delhi's Bangla Sahib Gurdwara kitchen, that feeds thousands of poor, daily.
This unexpected pandemic has hit the poor, homeless and migrant workers, the hardest. For them, food is a bigger worry than coronavirus.?
Amid lockdown and the pandemic, Delhi¡¯s Bangla Sahib Gurdwara's kitchen has been feeding thousands of underprivileged people daily.
Gurdwara Sri?Bangla?Sahib, one of the important Sikh shrines in the country, has served langar to more than 5 million people in the last 35 days of lockdown,
Delhi Sikh?Gurudwara?Managing Committee President Manjinder Singh Sirsa said.
Volunteers prepare food at the Bangla Sahib Gurudwara, to be distributed among people in need, during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown in New Delhi.
A volunteer carries prepared food at the Bangla Sahib Gurudwara to be distributed among people in need during a nationwide lockdown, in New Delhi.
Social-distancing protocols are followed thoroughly and all the helpers in the kitchen are sanitising their hands properly, before entering the kitchen.
Volunteers load prepared food at the Bangla Sahib Gurudwara, to be distributed among people in New Delhi.
Delhi's Bangla Sahib Gurudwara has served the meals that include rice, bread, sabzi, dal and prasada.
The Gurudwara managed to serve between 60,000 and 1,00,000 meals every day before the lockdown, but now the number has gone down to 40,000 meals per day. Since social-distancing needs to be practiced, the number of helpers in the religious place have reduced, but they are doing their best with every possible resource.
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