On a big scale, the fertilizer cooperative IFFCO has come forward to rescue the poor villages, farmers, women and others by distributing blankets to them, who are forced to sleep at night on the streets when the temperature plummets across northern India.
On a daily basis, IFFCO officials across the country are distributing thousands of blankets to the needy people. In one of the functions organized by Gazipur District Cooperative Union under the banner of IFFCO, its Chairman Vijay Shankar Rai distributed 200 blankets to the poor farmers, women and others on Wednesday.
In another function, Prakash Dalal, Agriculture Minister of Haryana gave blankets to the needy and appreciated the efforts of IFFCO by mentioning them in one of his tweets. This was organized at Loharu, Bhiwani, Haryana where more than 400 blankets were distributed among the poor and the needy people.
In Lakhimpur-Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh, IFFCO’s one of the RGB Members Rajdutt Pandey distributed blankets to the villagers under the banner of fertilizer cooperative.
In Odisha, IFFCO’s Paradeep Plant Unit Head K J Patel distributed blankets to needy & poor people of Santoshi Jarashram, an old age home at Balijhara Paradeep Odisha.
In Karnataka, under the free blanket distribution Program, IFFCO at Davanagere, Karnataka distributed bankets among the municipal laborers in the presence of former minister Kesgvamurthy.
In West Bengal, At Gotra Cooperative, Nadia, West Bengal, blankets were distributed to the needy women farmers in the presence of Dy RCS Avijit Sarkar, RGB and IFFCO Field Officer by maintaining COVID norms in the village.
“IFFCO drive of free distribution of Blankets to the needy & poor people is going on across the nation. Such a distribution was also done in Srinagar for people living along the flood prone stretch of Dal Lake, #Kashmir amid heavy Snowfall”, wrote IFFCO MD Dr U S Awasthi on his twitter wall.
Showcasing the human face of co-operative is nothing new for IFFCO and other co-op bodies as they always come forward in the event of a crisis-be it natural calamities or pandemic like Covid 19.
