MC commissioner, mayor honour 40 volunteers

Chandigarh: Municipal corporation mayor Rajbala Malik and municipal commissioner K K Yadav have honoured and felicitated 40 volunteers and distributed certificates of appreciation to them.

The authority with the collaboration of the volunteers reached out to 8,000 people, handing them dry ration, juices, sanitary pads, stationery items, juices, baby food and other items. The exercise to distribute the material was conducted under the supervision of Vivek Trivedi, social development officer, MC.

Prominent NGOs and organisations were Association of Professional Social workers and Development Practitioners, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries, Swarmani Youth Welfare Association, Shaping Careers Education Society and others. “These groups, NGOs and companies extended their support to combat humanitarian crisis triggered by the outbreak of Covid-19,” said Trivedi.