As the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic, the DSGMC has been providing free food to the lockdown-hit homeless people and shelter to health workers in its Gurudwaras.
New Delhi: The Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) on Saturday announced an insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh for its employees in the forefront of the coronavirus fight in case of death due to the disease.
New Delhi: The Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) on Saturday announced an insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh for its employees in the forefront of the coronavirus fight in case of death due to the disease.
As the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic, the DSGMC
has been providing free food to the lockdown-hit homeless people and shelter to
health workers in its gurudwaras.
It will now provide an insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh each
to its 2,500 frontline workers who are providing free community meals, and
sanitation and transport-related services across the national capital, its
president Manjinder Singh Sirsa said.
Staff members of the DSGMC-managed gurudwaras have been
distributing food and relief material in JJ colonies, labour camps, shelter
homes, etc., as a result of which there is a risk of them contracting the novel
coronavirus, Mr Sirsa said.
The life insurance scheme will
include sanitation staff, cooks preparing langar, religious preachers, security
staff and other frontline workers tasked with distributing food.
"We salute the efforts of
our frontline workers to provide services to mankind at the ground level amid
the coronavirus threat," he said.
The DSGMC has been taking care of accommodation
and food requirements of around 200 doctors, nurses and other healthcare
staffers involved in treating COVID-19 patients.
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