Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev has ordered the District Magistrates to make necessary arrangements for providing cooked food to poor, distressed, homeless and deprived persons at appropriate locations and make the national Capital hunger free.

The Delhi Government has already opened 1617 food centres or hunger relief camps and feeding 7.90 lakh persons with lunch and 8.06 lakh persons with dinner as on April 8, according to statement.

To assist the people of Dev in its order on April 1 had ordered to open a Covid-19 helpline 1031 to share information on the food centers, hunger relief camps, fair price shops, ration shops, public distribution outlets, it reads.

On an average 1000 to 1200 hungers call are attended to provide food to people in distress, it said, adding that an order of Chief Secretary is already put in place a robust mechanism of feedbacks system from food centre, hunger relief camp by way of Google forms to be filled by the centre in-charge on real time basis.

Facility for issuance of e-passes during the lockdown period for providing for essential goods and services, medical emergencies and other personal exigencies etc. is being done on e-portal epass.jantasamvad.org, it added.

The Department is also using technology to leverage their efforts for identification of hotspots and cordoning off of the area, it said, adding that a dedicated survey App has been developed which helps in “containment survey” of a pre-defined hotspots which are identified and cordoned.