<p class="title">Hundreds of migrant labourers sitting under the shade of a tree with empty plates in their hands are on their feet in a trice, as the sound of approaching vehicles reaches the ears at Guddeangadi, near Kuloor. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Soon the sight of youth on two motorcycles and a car appearing at the end of the road, triggers chaos as men, women push and curse each other for jumping the queue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The youth swiftly park their motorcycles and ensure that the migrant labourers receiving free mid-day meals from volunteers of Kalpa Trust and Kudroli Shri Gokarnanatheshwara temple and do not violate social distancing rules.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The lockdown enforced to contain Covid-19, has left migrant labourers, particularly those without BPL cards, in a miserable state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The initiative to help such labourers has witnessed unprecedented outpouring of support from all quarters. The youth have been playing a crucial role in providing logistics support to non-government organisations (NGOs) and identifying the hungry labourers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A team, led by Ajit, Vijay and Bhavani Shankar, has been contacting multiple associations in Kavoor and pooling their resources in order to reach out to more people who have not had a morsel of food for days.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ismail Usman of Ballal Cross road also makes sure that the recipients of food kits from other organisations do not join the queue to receive mid-day meal and deprive others of food. </p>.<p class="bodytext">These youth have gone beyond the role of co-ordinating between different agencies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">For instance, Ismail, a petty shop owner, regularly donates rice, vegetables, pulses to the mid-day meal programme of NGOs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Youth like Vicky, Yatish, Shravan, Chaitanya, Maanas, Nagaraj, Harshad, Deepak and Harshith Devadiga have begun surveying and listing families that don’t have BPL cards.</p>
<p class="title">Hundreds of migrant labourers sitting under the shade of a tree with empty plates in their hands are on their feet in a trice, as the sound of approaching vehicles reaches the ears at Guddeangadi, near Kuloor. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Soon the sight of youth on two motorcycles and a car appearing at the end of the road, triggers chaos as men, women push and curse each other for jumping the queue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The youth swiftly park their motorcycles and ensure that the migrant labourers receiving free mid-day meals from volunteers of Kalpa Trust and Kudroli Shri Gokarnanatheshwara temple and do not violate social distancing rules.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The lockdown enforced to contain Covid-19, has left migrant labourers, particularly those without BPL cards, in a miserable state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The initiative to help such labourers has witnessed unprecedented outpouring of support from all quarters. The youth have been playing a crucial role in providing logistics support to non-government organisations (NGOs) and identifying the hungry labourers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A team, led by Ajit, Vijay and Bhavani Shankar, has been contacting multiple associations in Kavoor and pooling their resources in order to reach out to more people who have not had a morsel of food for days.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ismail Usman of Ballal Cross road also makes sure that the recipients of food kits from other organisations do not join the queue to receive mid-day meal and deprive others of food. </p>.<p class="bodytext">These youth have gone beyond the role of co-ordinating between different agencies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">For instance, Ismail, a petty shop owner, regularly donates rice, vegetables, pulses to the mid-day meal programme of NGOs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Youth like Vicky, Yatish, Shravan, Chaitanya, Maanas, Nagaraj, Harshad, Deepak and Harshith Devadiga have begun surveying and listing families that don’t have BPL cards.</p>
