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 fruits and vegetable mandi association he has got a curfew pass to move around. His team is also selling vegetables at subsidised rates (at the rate at which they purchase from mandi, the subsidy being the transportation and labour cost) in various low-income localities. People who can’t even pay the subsidised rate are given free. People who’re being given free packets of flour and vegetables are identified with the help of some local volunteer or with the help of the community.
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 30/3/20.
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, A.P. Capoor, Rs. 500
27/3/20, Mudit Shukla, Rs. 3,000
28/3/20, Vivek, Rs. 5,000
29/3/20, Dipankar, Rs. 10,000
29/3/20, Gaurav Pandey, Rs. 10,000
29/3/20, Malay Bhatt, Rs. 2,000
30/3/20, Pooja Ramakant, Rs. 10,000
30/3/20, Neev (Praveen Srivastava), Rs. 10,000
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 purchsed for shelter home in Aishbagh, Rs. 3,339
27/3/20, Flour, 100 kg, Rs. 3,200
27/3/20, Subsidy given on sale of vegetables, Rs. 4,150
28/3/20, Subsidy given on sale of vegetables, Rs. 3,145
29/3/20, Flour, 100 kg, Rs. 2,900
29/3/20, Subsidy given on sale of vegetables, Rs. 1,900
30/3/20, Subsidy given on sale of vegetables, Rs. 1,700
30/3/20, Flour, 300 kg, Rs. 13,400
30/3/20, Potato, Onion given to Zainab for distribution, Rs. 8,400
30/3/20, Medicines for Vijaya Pandey, Rs. 251
Beneficiaries:
26/3/20: Mohammad Ismail, 9838363533, 6392033957 (son Ilyas’s no.), mason from Sultanpur living in Lucknow in temorary 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 purchsed 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 on behalf of Humsafar 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, 550 kg Onion, 250 kg Lauki, 250 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
29/3/20: 5 kg flour, 2 kg potato, 1 kg onion packets given to 30 families at three different sites in Husainabad and Chowk, through Shamshad, 9415089760: Md. Mamtaj (3 family members), Raju (5), Shaheena (3), Bablu (2), Vineet (3), Sumit (4), Ayesha (3), Aaliya (4), Seema (3), Ankit (4), Sonu (5), Munna (3), Shiva (4), Anis (5), Anna (4), Saeem Rizvi (3), Sanju (4), Ruma (2), Reshma (2), through Rukayya: Rabiya, Rukayya, Bano, Chanda, Ruksana, Maria, Fatima, Shabnaz, Sabya, Shabnam, Jannatul, 4 independent families in Chowk: Ranjana, Jalim, Chunni, Parveen
29/3/20: 900 kg Potato, 550 kg Onion, 80 kg Tomato, 80 kg Lauki, 190 kg Kaddu, sold at purchase price from mandi (at subsidised rates), Rs. 20 per kg Potato, Rs. 20 per kg Onion, Rs. 10 per kg Lauki, Rs. 10 per kg Kaddu and Rs. 15 per kg tomato to over 300 families.
29/3/20: 25 kg potato and 25 kg onion taken by Humayun Beg, 9559054940, 7985848724 for distribution to 12 families near Ikauna stadium next to Saheed path to prevent them from moving back to their villages and several other families at other places.
30/3/20: 1,200 kg Potato, 1,200 kg Onion, 200 kg Tomato, 260 kg Lauki, 260 kg Kaddu, partly sold at purchase price from mandi (at subsidised rates), Rs. 20 per kg Potato, Rs. 20 per kg Onion, Rs. 10 per kg Kaddu and Rs. 10 per kg tomato, Lauki given free to over 200 families in Bans Mandi and to 60 families in Rajendra Nagar through Ashok Gulati and Zainab was given 300 kg Potato and 150 kg Onion out of above stock for free distribution in Thakurganj, Safdalbagh and Husainabad.
Sandeep, National Vice President, SP(I), Ph: 0522 2355978, e-mail: ashaashram@yahoo.com
