Volunteers from RSB Transmissions supplied hygienically-packed food packets and basic provisions to some 30,000 people during the lockdown in and around the cities and towns where the group has its plants: Jamshedpur, Pune, Lucknow and Pantnagar.
Concentrating on slum and rural areas, the RSB Covid-19 Warriors went around in the morning and the evening, taking all Covid precautions like wearing masks and maintaining social distancing.
Basic health check-up for Covid-19 was conducted for police personnel of Shikrapur, near Sanaswadi in Pune, while employees from the corporate office in the city also distributed provision kits. It also provided sanitisers to 7,500 patients and health workers at rural Aurangabad through the Savitribai Phule Mahila Trust’s Hedgewar Hospital, Aurangabad.
Says group chairman R.K. Behera: “My grandfather Krishna Chandra Behera and father Bhramarbar Behera took inspiration from J.R.D. Tata and used to help the less fortunate, even though they themselves didn’t have the resources.”
In a more formalised set-up today, which his daughter-in-law Priyanka heads, the activities are mainly in three places where RSB operates: the Beheras’ native village Mania, where it has set up an English-medium school and a medical centre; Pune, where it supports a school for underprivileged children; and Chennai, helping a school for special children.
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Thousands of poor people in various areas were fed