Tripura Chief Minister Urges Business Heads to Aid the Underprivileged amid Lockdown

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Sunday urged the business fraternity to come forward in serving the interest of poor people amid the coronavirus crisis.

According to Deb, “The established organizations should lead from the front to ensure food for all the poor people who fall into their chain of business”. They have the potential to help the poor people. With every established businessmen, a huge number of people remain associated."

"From now on, each and every businessmen is requested to take care of the food of the poor associated with you”, the Tripura Chief Minister added in a video message.

Earlier today, he had written to the Secretary of the Indian Tea Association, Silchar division seeking its intervention so that the wages and ration provided to the tea garden workers continue.

During his speech, he said, “In Tripura there are 54 tea gardens where thousand of pluckers work together. In this lockdown period, the owners should ensure regular rationing of the pluckers”.

The Tripura Chief Minister also included that the brick kiln owners also should follow the same and assure foods to each and every brick field worker.

“In Tripura there are more than 300 brick fields. People from various state work there. The owners should understand the gravity of the problem and ensure regular ration to each and every brick field worker, especially, those who have no ration cards. Everyone should also look after the issue whether the government ensured services are being delivered to their workers or not”, the Chief Minister said.

The chief Minister also urged the government employees too to contribute at this time of crisis. Notably, only recently the Chief Minister announced a relief package of Rs 229 crore for the lockdown hit people.

The Chief Minister has also written to Chief Ministers of 7 Indian states seeking their help to provide security to about 300 Tripura people stranded due to the nationwide lockdown declared to contain the Covid 19 pandemic.

The Chief Minister in it’s letter urged the governments of the respective states to ensure food, shelter, security and health related problems if any. The letters had been forwarded to the states like Assam, West Bengal, Tamilnadu, Maharstra, Delhi, Telengana and Karnataka, sources said.

Transport Secretary L Darlong told this reporter that apart from the Chief Minister, Chief Secretary had been also forwarding letters to the chief secretaries of other states and the transport department was sending similar request letters to the district magistrates of the areas where the Tripura people got stuck.