Amid lockdown and the pandemic, Delhi’s Bangla Sahib Gurdwara’s kitchen has been feeding thousands of underprivileged people daily.
While the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown has forced people to stay inside their homes, the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has upgraded its mega kitchens to prepare food for over 40,000 needy people across the city.
“We are providing food to over 40,000 people every day through our kitchen.”
Harbir Singh, in charge of the langar in the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib said that Every day 40 people prepare the food, while 20 more load and channelize it. He said the Gurudwara kitchen is following all the precautions, like social distancing protocol, while preparing food. Everyone involved in the kitchen is asked to sanitize their hands properly before entering the kitchen area. Here are some photos from inside Delhi’s Bangla Sahib Gurdwara kitchen, that feeds thousands of poor, daily.
Gurdwara Sri Bangla Sahib, one of the important Sikh Gurdwaras in the country, has served langar to more than 5 million people in the last 35 days of lockdown, Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Managing Committee President Manjinder Singh Sirsa said.
Volunteers prepare food at the Bangla Sahib Gurudwara, to be distributed among people in need, during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown in New Delhi.