Municipal corporations of Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Lucknow, Nagpur, Patna and Indore have set up feeding centres to provide free cooked food NEW DELHI : The Union government on Wednesday said it has arranged free meal for more than 1.27 crore poor since lockdown started on 25 March.
The government said the ministry of social justice and empowerment working with major municipal corporations in the country has arranged free meal for more than 1.27 crore destitutes, beggars, homeless persons after Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered nationwide lockdown on 25 March 2020 to the contain the deadly coronavirus (also known as COVID19).
Read more on livemint.com