India
Nagas in Bengaluru volunteer to help migrant workers
Our Correspondent
Kohima, May 31 (EMN): The Naga Task Force Bengaluru (NTFB) has gone the extra mile to give back to the society, by providing voluntary services to the people during this pandemic.
On Sunday, 11 volunteers from the task force distributed rations (relief items) to migrant workers and slum areas in the city.
The rations were provided by the Karanataka state level committee for co-ordinating with non-governmental organisations, private sectors, and international organisations for Covid-19; Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and United Nations Children’s Fund are also part of it.
On receiving a request from an officer, who is a member of the committee, to help them, “we decided to extend our help in providing them with our volunteers and help the people in the city,” said Nuthipru Nienu, member of NTFB and advisor to Naga Students’ Union Bangalore (NSUB).
The volunteers distributed the rations arranged by the committee, to those who are affected by the nationwide lockdown such as migrant workers and slum dwellers, he said.
“We were volunteering our services to the people here, on humanitarian ground. It is giving back to the society, to overall residents of the city and not only to the Naga people residing here,” Nienu added.
He said that the task force has provided volunteers to the committee and helped distribute the rations to the places the committee wanted them to go.
“In this way, we are giving back to the society and extending our support to the people, besides helping our own members here,” he said.
Meanwhile, the task force has also requested the committee to help them with rations in the form of dry food, on the day of stranded Nagas boarding the special train to Nagaland. The committee has given their ‘positive response to look into the matter’, Nienu informed.
The NTFB has been actively involved in extending all possible help and support to its members residing in Bengaluru during the nationwide lockdown.
The task force is a joint effort of Eastern Naga Students’ Union Bengaluru and NSUB, to tackle problems and address various issues faced by its members during this lockdown.