Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, April 29: Karamsheel Charitable Trust (KCT), Jammu– a family foundation created 17 years back by Late Mehta Prem Kapoor, a prominent socialite has come to the rescue of the labour class during this COVID-19 crisis by providing them free ration including rice, atta, dal, oil and soaps.
The trust is providing ration items to all needy classes like rehriwalas, skilled as well as non-skilled labourers, staff working in malls and markets etc, of the society under its “Corona -19 relief distribution sewa project” with a target of feeding around 50,000 starving souls.
Trustee Ajay Kapoor informed that till date the Trust has organized around 75 distribution camps in all, distributed relief in the form of essential items to about 43,500 souls which include localities and non localities daily-wage earners working in Jammu and adjoining areas, living in different slum clusters/ localities spread over Jammu and its adjoining districts.
The ration materials being distributed to such needy populace include 10 kg atta, 5 kg rice, 2 kg dal, cooking oil, washing /bathing soaps, packs of biscuits and rusks sufficient for a family comprising of 5-6 persons per week, besides clothing distribution in most of the beggars’ clusters.
The camps were organized in habitations of populace living in clusters falling under different sectors of Channi Himmat, Channi Rama, Greater Kailash, Sainik Colony, Bathindi, Nanak Nagar, Preet Nagar, Bahu Plaza, Friends Colony, Narwal Bye Pass, Transport Nagar, Krishna Nagar, Janipur, Durga Nagar, RS Pura, Vijaypur, Bishnah, Katra and many other tiny clusters scattered in various localities of Jammu and its adjoining districts by a team of trustees led by Ajay Kapoor, Ravinder Singh and Vijay Menon.
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