Kashmir Centre for Social and Development Studies (KCSDS) has appealed to all social, political, religious, business and other organisations besides trade unions to unite against the spread of dreaded coronavirus in the society through strict implementation of social distancing and helping in sustenance of weaker sections of the society.
In a statement, KCSDS underlied a three-pronged strategy totackle difficult situation erupted as an outcome of a prolonged lockdown.
“KCSDS makes an earnest appeal to people to help their poorer neighbours in their localities and each well to do familyin a locality would adopt a needy family or more and support these witheatables or cash for the purchase of same.”
“All Mohalla/Village Committees or Masjid Committeeswill gear up to take responsibility of identifying the families that needassistance within their area and then allot them to well off families in their neighbourhood totake care of them individually.”
“NGOs and other social organisations will help those who are left over after allthe resourceful families are exhaustedin different localities. They will also feed the migrant labourers and thosewho have got stranded in the valley irrespective of caste, creed, colour orreligion.”
The statement said KCSDS is of the opinion that abovemethodology could be an alternative to crowd funding which creates lot ofhype around aid collection with chancesof missing out some deserving or replicating aid for some others. The directhelp from affluent to the weaker families would also remove many apprehensionsassociated with it.
KCSDS has also hailed the efforts of many individuals,NGOs, social and other organisations fortheir support in providing personal safety items and equipment like masks,sanitisers, PPEs etc to our front line warriors viz the doctors, paramedicalstaff, municipal workers etc, and wishes that they continue with suchendeavours.
“Our frontline workers are presently engaged inherculean task to save lives of the patients and suspects at the risk of theirown lives for which the society would remember them for all times tocome,” said KCSDS statement.