Over 150 men, women and children who form the bulk of work force of three shut down brick kilns near the bed of the river Amanat under Tarhassi police station wait for men in uniform every day for their food.

Cops and officials of Tarhassi police station are reaching them lunch which is khichdi mostly aptly carrying good quantity of pulse and turmeric which in time of coronavirus turmeric is said to be a great immunity booster.

SP Palamu Ajay Linda said, “The poor people there get lunch courtesy our DGP M V Rao’s concept of community kitchen.” He said on an average 12 Kgs of food is prepared.

Linda said cops have told him that people sit with their plates on the ground maintaining social distance from each other even a small baby of 3 to 4 years sit away from his/ her mother while eating.

All these work force at the brick kilns hail from Lalgarh Bihar a railway station in Jharkhand’s Palamu and are locked at the kiln site because of the lock down.

The SP said, “I have directed my Tarhassi  police station officials to exert pressure on the owners of these brick kilns to provide them ration so that they do not go to sleep at night hungry or to just survive on what they had eaten in the noon.”

Linda said, “I visited a quarantine centre at Gurha Kalan and took stock of the situation there. There were 5 inmates all migrant labourers undergoing quarantine there.”

At Bishrampur police station sources said SP asked every one there in that police station to maintain social distancing along with hand washing, masks wearing, using sodium hypochlorite on floor, iron grills, iron bars etc.