Vijayawada’s commoners rise to the occasion, come to the help of flood victims
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Vijayawada’s commoners rise to the occasion, come to the help of flood victims

The Hindu  

At a time when most of the shops on Bhagat Singh Nagar, near the Singh Nagar flyover, ran out of milk, water bottles and groceries, forcing people to walk long distances to get the same, a few good samaritans rose to the ocassion to do their bit. He gets not more than ₹700 per day, but spent ₹2,000 in two days on buying sacks containing water sachets. On Bhagat Singh Nagar road, an elderly woman, Nagalakshmi, and her grandson, Sai, a first year BTech student, were distributing buttermilk to people, who had come here after walking for 2-3 km. “It did not take more than 20 minutes for the bottles to get over,” Alekya said, adding that they would come again in the evening.

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Small businesses bearing the brunt of flood fallout in Vijayawada

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