Socialist Party (India) Lucknow District President Salman Raini
Salman Raini (Ph:9335281976, 9198379619), Lucknow District President of Socialist Party (India) and General Secretary of ‘Young Farmers Traders Fruits and Vegetables Business Association,’ Dubagga, Lucknow is spearheading relief efforts in Lucknow during the lockdown in the wake of coronavirus threat. His team is reaching out to daily wage workers, homeless on streets and in shelter homes and patients or their caretakers outside hospitals and delivering food to them. Being an office-bearer of the fruit and vegetable mandi association he has got a curfew pass to move around. Yesterday, flour and vegetables were delivered to Md. Ismail, a mason from Sultanpur stuck in Lucknow with 3 other family members living in a temporary shelter in Nishatganj and pulses, oil, etc. were provided at a shelter home for homeless in Aishbagh with 12 inmates run by our colleague Sharad Patel.
If you are interested in contributing to these relief efforts you may do so in the following ways:
(1) Make a financial contribution to the bank account: Raini Fruit Company, A/c no.: 104705002387, IFSC: ICIC0001047
(2) Provide raw food items or cooked food packets or even rotis. If you give a call on the number of Salman Raini or Abhyudaya Pratap Singh, 9559156946, somebody will pick it up from your place.
(3) Deliver any relief items to our office in Guframab Imambada Road, Tarkari Mandi, Chowk, Lucknow, opposite Mukhtare Halwai. Contact numbers: Salman Raini, 9335281976, 9198379619, Abhyudaya Pratap Singh, 9559156946, or Mohammad Ahmed, 9335133390, 7007918600.
(4) You could volunteer to make packets for distribution or cook food and deliver to needy people if required. Contact abovementioned activists to find out the requirement at that time.
Given below are the details of the amount received and expenditure incurred till 28/3/20.
Donations:
25/3/20, Rahul Pandey, Rs. 10,000
25/3/20, Surabhi Agarwal, Rs. 8,000
25/3/20, Sumeet Agarwal, Rs. 3,000
26/3/20, Divya, Rs. 30,000
26/3/20, Ashok Gulati, Rs. 500
27/3/20, Capoor, Rs. 500
27/3/20, Mudit Shukla, Rs. 3,000
28/3/20, Vivek, Rs. 5,000
Expenses:
22/3/20 to 24/3/20, Biscuits and water bottles, Rs. 2,700
26/3/20, Flour, 250 kg, Rs. 8,700 (had to be bought in black at the rate of Rs. 34 per kg)
26/3/20, Potato, 120 kg, Rs. 2,700
26/3/20, Onion, 60 kg, Rs. 700 (at a concessional rate)
26/3/20, Polythene packets for making small packets for delivery, Rs. 600
26/3/20, Rickshaw fare, Rs. 150
26/3/20, Biscuits, Rs. 1,100
26/3/20, Essential food and sanitary items purchased for shelter home in Aishbagh, Rs. 3,339
27/3/20, Flour, 100kg, Rs. 3,200
Beneficiaries:
26/3/20: Mohammad Ismail, 9838363533, 6392033957 (son Ilyas’s no.), mason from Sultanpur living in Lucknow in temporary shelter, 5 kg flour, 2 kg potato, 1 kg onion, 1 pumpkin given
26/3/20: Inmates of Shelter Home in Karehta, Mill Road, Aishbagh run by Sharad Patel, 9506533722 and Ramji Verma, spices, salt, sugar, rice, pulses, mustard oil, tea, sanitary items worth Rs. 3,339 purchased and given, Names of inmates: Narendra Dev Yadav, Shiv Ram Mishra, Jwala Prasad, Shravan Singh, Rajesh, Sriram, Saket, Tushar, Md. Akhatarul Islam Ansari, Shiv Ratan, Rakesh Shukla, Harwinder Kaur.
27/3/20: 5 kg flour, 2 kg potato, 1 kg onion packets given to 44 families from Socialist Party (India) office in Guframab Imambada Road, Tarkari Mandi, Chowk to Wahid s/o Mahmud, Md. Irfan s/o Md. Yusuf, Rukhsar, Shabnam w/o Naim, Md. Ayyaz s/o Md. Hashim, Nafees s/o Md. Anis, Md. Kaleem, Naseem Bano, Hoor Jahan d/o Riyaz, Zaibun d/o Niyaz, Aftab s/o Barkat Ali, Rais Ahmed s/o Raju, Zaibun d/o Saeed, Sameera d/o Akhtar, Sirazuddin s/o Jameel, Sharfuddin, Danish s/o Asghar Mirza, Lallu, Noor Jahan, Kamal s/o Md. Umar, Md. Ajeez s/o Md. Abdul Hameed, Muneer Jahan w/o Jamshed Mirza, Shoobi w/o Kambar Raza, Babli w/o Shabbu, Amirul w/o Nafisul Hasan, Imtiyaz w/o Sadiq Hussain, Dildar Mirza, Shaheen Parveen w/o Sajjad, Haider Ali, Imran, Zakia w/o Imran, Shabista, Shamim Bano w/o Irkan, Ibrahim s/o Farooq, Salma d/o Saeed, Nuzhat d/o Md. Islam, Haseena Bano d/o Md. Irkan, Zeba d/o Raza, Afsar Jahan d/o Manzoor Ahmad, Haseena d/o Nawab Jani, Md. Zeeshan, Md. Shuab, Md. Sharif, Md. Kaleem
27/3/20: 600 kg Potato, 600 kg Onion, 125 kg Lauki, 125 kg Kaddu sold from office at purchase price from mandi (at subsidised rates), Rs. 55 for 2.5 kg Potato, Rs. 50 kg for 2.5 kg Onion, Rs. 30 for 2 kg Lauki, Rs. 30 for 2 kg Kaddu (these were maximum quantities given to a family), about 250 families benefitted
28/3/20: 5 kg flour, 2 kg potato, 1 kg onion packets given to 69 families at Kanshiram Old Colony, Para through Humsafar volunteer and battery rickshaw operator Rashida, 8604721682 to Nafeesa, Yasmeen, Rabiya, Khalikun Nisha, Israt Jahan, Rachna Soni, Ashique Ali, Safiya, Rajkumari, Guru, Abrar, Anupam, Reena Rawat, Afroz Jahan, Afruz, Uma Devi, Asha, Israt Jahan, Kafsha, Rashida, Rajkumari, Putti Lal, Maya, Mehrun Nisha, Neelam, Seema Maurya, Hasina Khatun, Atiq, Hazi, Sabzi, Safiya Khatun, Rani, Shaheen, Hina, Zeba, Razia, Nafeesh, Afsar, Yasmeen, Sahana, Shabnam, Shammi, Chunni, Chunmun, Famida, Taiba, Rajkumari, Anisha, Abrar, Nashreen, Farida, Zeenat, Soni, Puja, Israt Jahan, Aradhana, Saira Bano, Afsar Jahan plus some other families
28/3/20: Rs. 2,000 given to Safiya Khatun for treatment of her 5 yrs. old son Abdul Raheem who suffered serious head injury in a road accident with a battery rickshaw which overturned on him on 7/3/20, the familiy owes Rs. 20,000 to a private hospital which we’re trying to get waived
28/3/20: 600 kg Potato, 600 kg Onion, 125 kg Lauki, 125 kg Kaddu sold at purchase price from mandi (at subsidised rates), Rs. 55 for 2.5 kg Potato, Rs. 50 kg for 2.5 kg Onion, Rs. 30 for 2 kg Lauki, Rs. 30 for 2 kg Kaddu (these were maximum quantities given to a family), about 200 families benefitted at 2 sites in Para and at Haider Canal, Purvideen Kheda, 4 extremely poor families of Rajkumari, Ram Pyari, Baby and one more woman were given free packet of vegetables.
Sandeep, National Vice President, SP(I), Ph: 0522 2355978, e-mail: ashaashram@yahoo.com
