Petrol dealers give groceries to 200 families in Nashik

NASHIK: The Nashik district petrol dealer welfare association has donated grocery packets to over 200 families where one of the family members are disabled.
Secretary of the association Sudarshan Patil said, "Many people are going through financial crisis due to the lockdown. On behalf of our association, we have donated grocery packets to 200 families that will easily last them for the next 15 days."
The grocery packets distributed to these families contained wheat, rice, two types of pulses, edible oil, salt, tea and sugar.The association came forward to help after Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) asked for voluntary contribution from the association members.
"Archana Tambe, deputy commissioner of NMC, had asked us if we would like to extend help to those who are in distress. We immediately agreed and spoke with the grocery dealers to get the food packets ready," Patils said.
The grocery packets were handed over to Tambe by the association members on Saturday. The association is an organisation of 350 petrol pump distributors of three government companies — IOCL, HPCL and BPCL — based in Nashik district.
The Nashik Municipal Corporation is continuously assisting the poor and needy as well as the families of people with disability by providing them with groceries and other essential items.