Corona warriors: Karnataka govt with ISKCON Akshaya Patra readies 1 lakh grocery kits for poor

Apr 3, 2020, 5:46 PM IST

Bengaluru: The ISKCON Akshaya Patra Foundation along with Karnataka government has been serving cooked food and are now distributing essential groceries boxes to migrant labourers and daily-wage earners who have lost their livelihood and find themselves in great despair in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent national lockdown.

The team is preparing 1 lakh grocery kits which contain 5kg of sona masuri rice, 1 kg tur dal, half-a-litre of refined oil, sambar and rasam powder besides vegetables of long shelf life like potatoes.