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| RLEK NGO serving rusk and tea to poor laborers at Clock Tower in Dehradun |
The government must focus on
increasing the Immunity of poor
laborers.
-Avdhash Kaushal
Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK) has
hundreds of interns from European
and American Countries every year. We arrange for bottled
mineral water for them to
drink. Even if once they consume the ordinary water that
we drink, they fall sick. So that
is the difference between the immunity of Indians and our
European and American
counterparts.
Lockdown during Covid 19 has helped in reducing the
number of cases but even then the
number of COVID patients is increasing day by day at a
very high speed. Everyday more
than 8,000 cases are being reported in India. The number
of cases has already touched
Two Lakhs, Sixteen Thousand, and Four Hundred and
Twenty-Nine (2,16,429). The
Government and the ruling party at the Centre and State
level are giving credit to
themselves for reducing the number of cases. Instead of
strict lockdown they should
focus on providing measures for increasing the immunity
of its citizens, specially the
poor labourers who are not able to get even two meals a
day.
RLEK has observed that many daily wage workers gather at
Clock Tower, Laal Pul,
Rispana Pul, Jakhan etc with the hope to get work. Most
of them go home without getting
any work and without any food for their families. RLEK
started to give light breakfast to
these labourers in the morning. One labour started
weeping and said “how can I eat this
breakfast when my family including two children could not
get any food for last two
days”. RLEK volunteers asked the labourer to call his
family members for the breakfast
as well.
If the immunity of the Main Force (laborers) goes down
then the number of COIVID
cases will increase drastically to India reporting more
than 12,000 cases per day. We have
already surpassed Germany and France in Corona Virus
cases and very soon we are
going to surpass Italy.
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