Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 16: Maintaining that lockdown to contain spread of deadly Coronavirus was in the larger interests of people, Chairman Peoples Democratic Front (PDF) Hakeem Yaseen has urged the need to protect survival of the poorest of the poor strata of the society whose livelihood has got hard hit as an immediate fallout of this invisible enemy of the human being.
Urging the Government to release wages of all daily wagers and HDF workers in various Government departments before the ensuing Eid-ul- fitr, Yaseen said their families were at the brink of starvation due to prevailing situation amid Covid-19.
In a statement issued here, Yaseen while endorsing the importance of lockdown to check spread of the dreaded Coronavirus, has said that it was the paramount duty of the Government as well as philanthropists to ensure that no poor family suffers for want of food and life saving drugs in these testing times.
Yaseen while quoting WHO experts that Coronavirus was unlikely to end soon, has urged the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir to announce a realistic relief package for the sumo / minibus drivers, small business unit holders, and fruit growers, whose livelihood has come to a grinding halt due to the lockdown.
He said Government should, in anticipation,take proactive measures to save more vulnerable sections of the society from the ill effects of the Coronavirus lockdown.
He has also appealed to the Government to release all the leftover political detainees of the state before the ensuing Eid-ul-fitr, adding that post Coronavirus situation demanded that every human being should be facilitated to be with their near and dear ones till the worldwide crisis gets resolved.
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