Garnished with kindness
The Hindu
A home-run food enterprise and a catering company come up with pandemic initiatives
Amidst her business commitments, Neeta Jessani creates space for charity. A home-based entrepreneur who sells cakes, souffle and other desserts against prior orders under “Monkey Temptation” is now providing food for COVID-19 patients free-of-cost. “It is a week since I started this service for the benefit of COVID-19 patients. I make larger portions of whatever I cook for my family. I provide breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast includes idli, pongal or upma. For lunch, I offer dal rice, sambar rice or roti with a vegetable curry. I restrict the prepartion to 30 meals per day. It is offered free to both who can afford it and those who cannot. They however have to bear the delivery charges. For the underprivileged, I take care of the delivery charges too, provided the destination is not too far away. The response is good. On an average, I receive seven calls per day,” says Neeta, a resident of Egmore. She can be reached at 99529 46032.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.