Rural police reach out to people hit by lockdown in Coimbatore
The Hindu
Kits containing grocery items, dresses distributed
Coimbatore District (Rural) Police are reaching out to people in need of help in the second wave of the pandemic too. The police have also come to the help of people who suffered losses in the recent rains. On Tuesday, the rural police supplied grocery items and dresses to 35 families of Chinnarpathi tribal settlement at Aliyar. “Adults in the tribal families are unable to go to work due to the lockdown. We arranged kits containing essential commodities and handed them over to the tribal families,” said M. Vivekananthan, DSP, Valparai.More Related News

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