Meet these A coronavirus warriors who went past name of obligation to assist others

Posted On May 30, 2020 By admin With Comments Off

During the coronavirus crisis, several people and groups have shown acts of kindness, such as delivering free groceries, retarding leases, curing each other, and so on. While some diverted lends for daughter’s union to help others, others exercised their entrepreneurial skills.

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We bring you four such tales where people have gone beyond their summon of duty to solve problems in their communities that benefit others.

Investment banker turns inventors to deliver groceries in Siliguri

Amid the national lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, procuring all-importants has become a difficult task. For people living in the metros, thanks to the hoard of e-grocers such as BigBasket, Grofers, Modern Bazaar, Dunzo, Zomato, and Swiggy, amongst other, buying essential goods has become easier. Nonetheless, for a significantly massive population that lives in non-metros and hamlets, procuring everyday pieces has become a tough assignment.

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Shiv Bansal

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Bengaluru-based investment banker Shiv Bansal too felt the same pain when he flew to his hometown Siliguri in West Bengal upon the announcement of the lockdown to take care of his ageing parents during the COVID-1 9 pandemic. When Shiv was asked by his mothers to get groceries, to his disillusionment, he couldn’t find any dwelling transmission services for grocery in Siliguri. Soon, he realised that these services are predominantly present in Tier-I municipals, and occupants in Tier-II and III metropolis have no other choice but to step outside to purchase essentials.

To help solve the issue of procuring daily indispensables in little town, especially in Siliguri, the 24 -year-old started Janta Delivery- a hyperlocal doorstep transmission endeavour that takes care of the last-mile logistics of groceries and other importants.

Janata Delivery works in a quite simple way. Customers sit their grocery order by sending a WhatsApp text on +91 -7 6022 -5 0045, or through its internet site.

It made only three days for Shiv to start the venture. He pulled together a five-member team and sorted out procedures, starting Janta Delivery in Siliguri with three primary goals — deliver grocery to the doorstep so that people can still respect social distancing, provide jobs to migrant workers so that they can sustain their support, and inhibit people from hoarding groceries by providing them with a reliable transmission work. Woman farmer from Odisha is administering vegetables for free

Be it by the common man, corporates, NGOs, or the government, numerous initiatives have been carried out to fulfil a greater good in these difficult times. A prodigious number of migrant labourers and daily gambles in India have been affected the most during the coronavirus pandemic. While a majority of them are members of the rural pockets of India, and are currently stuck in different governments with no means to earn a living and send money home, Chhayarani Sahu, a farmer from Odisha, has been dispersing her vegetable grow for free to the residents of about 15 hamlets.

She started her endeavour along with her family since the lockdown was announced on March 24. In the last month, Chhayarani and her family have distributed across 50 quintals of fresh veggies to hamlets, including Bhairabpur, Alabaga, Lunga, Brahmanigaon, Binayakpur, and some divisions of the Basudevpur municipality in the Bhadrak district of the state. She circulates an assortment of vegetables like tomatoes, pumpkins, brinjals, ladyfingers, carrots, beets, dark-green chillies, as well as spinach.

Hailing from a village announced Kuruda in the Bhadrak district, Chhayarani has been growing vegetables on her seven-acre farm for the last 20 years. Besides that, she rears 20 kine and pays a living through dairy farming as well.

This Army man from Bihar is making and giving away masks for free

At a occasion when the whole world is on a standstill, Sudhir Kumar, a Junior Commissioned Officer( JCO) in the Indian Army, is fighting problems at the grassroots level. Sudhir Kumar, 43, who is currently announced in Amritsar, Punjab, took a month-long leave to visit his family in Jatwalia village in Motihari district of Bihar, trying to arrange for his daughter’s marry. Sudhir had even taken a lend of Rs 4 lakh for the uniting, but due to the lockdown, it did not materialise.

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The scare of the pandemic and increasing awareness of the prudences to be taken led to a shortage of facemasks and other crucials in the village.

” When we sent our son to buy disguises, he said there was shortage of cover-ups in the market due to high demand. The ones available were very expensive, and cost Rs 200 ,” says Sudhir.

He adds that after determining the concealments, they thought of clearing them at home. As part of the family welfare programme, the Indian Army had also trained Sudhir’s wife in sewing and stitching, which his wife to spawn crates, augmenting the family income. With a stitch machine at home, raw materials to stimulate concealments, and a desire to serve the country in such testing epoches, Sudhir and his wife started stitching masks.

To begin with, Sudhir bought textile worth Rs 20,000, and likewise pulled out some substance from his home such as elastics, weaves, etc. Since the lockdown, the husband-wife duo has made and distributed more than 5,000 masks for free in their hamlet, as well as in neighbouring hamlets. Sudhir tells that he got the masks approved by a doctor in his quarter, who confirmed that the concealments are as good as the cover-ups offered in Motihari district.

The small-minded muddy court of Sudhir likewise helps as a help anchor for villagers. While beings in his hamlet knew that coronavirus is a deadly disease and want to take care as per the government’s directions, they do not have access to many resources. So, Sudhir has sloped in to help in such situations more. Apart from seeing cover-ups, he is giving away other all-important plies such as salt, soaps, soybean, potatoes, and onions for free to the needy in the village.

IIT and Stanford alumni develop machine to sterilise public places

While humanity is racing against time to find a remedy for the disease, Delhi-based PerSapien Innovation has come up with a machine announced’ Airlens Minus Corona’ to counter the spread of the disease. Started by Stanford University investigates Debayan Saha and Shashi Ranjan in 2017, PerSapien strongly believes that good health is the birthright of each human being.

Shashi says, the machine is like a “Robo Sapien”( a human-like machine) that operates on the mechanism of charged/ ionised water droplets, who the hell is ionised expending the corona discharge. The machine scatters the ionised water droplets, which in turn oxidises the viral protein, reducing it to a non-harmful molecule.

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According to the founders, the startup, which is funded by Gas Authority India Limited( GAIL) and Yes Bank Foundation, is not looking to derive business increases from their invention. Preferably, the co-founders assert that the device is not for busines marketing, and they are planning to open the technology on their website so that everyone can fix the maneuver by themselves. Debayan says, Airlens Minus Corona is no longer an commercial-grade make, but it is created to serve humanity against the coronavirus.

The device is ready for use and is ready for deployment, and the startup is presently in talks with the relevant operatives.” Considering the deadly situation India is exposed to, in order to curb the menace created by the virus, the government authorities will need such technology. Therefore, while the entire country has come together to fight the virus, we would like to contribute by sacrifice Airlens Minus Corona technology to the government to check the spread of the virus ,” he says.

Besides this, the duo recently developed another manoeuvre’ Minus Corona UV Bot ‘. It is an ultraviolet light-based robot, developed to enable sterilisation of hospital corridors, wards, ICUs, and case chambers without uncovering anybody to the infected environment. It comprises a UV-C lamp prepared on a wheeled robotic stage that is operated with a remote control which is also gave with a camera that opens financial perspectives from the driver’s seat onto a digital screen to remotely control the UV robot and avoid any obstacles.

( Edited by Kanishk Singh)

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