Inside India's Biggest Kitchen That Feeds Thousands Of Citizens Amid Lockdown
Salena Harshini |May 13, 2020
This community kitchen in Bangla Sahib Gurdwara, New Delhi is working day and night to provide meals for nearly 80,000 people in need every day. Check out to see what's inside the mega kitchen.
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In the midst of the current lockdown in India, there is a heartwarming act that stands testimony to the humane of society. In Delhi’s Bangla Sahib Gurdwara, hardly any visitor is left hungry. As the pandemic is making it hard for thousands to makes ends meet even for the daily meals, the community kitchen of Gurdwara has stepped up and fed more than 75 thousand people every single day.
Let's take a look inside the kitchen that is feeding thousands of Indians here. In this kitchen, innumerable meals are being made and delivered to lots of people daily.
On a daily basis, they use about 1,200 kg rice, 1,600 kg aata along with 700 to 800 kg of dal to make the meals. Afterward, the dishes are delivered to about 17 places around Delhi-NCR. Each typical serve has rice, ghee dal, chapatis with a different kind of sabji being cooked every day.
53 sevaks do the job of putting the whole delivering and cooking process together.
DSGM (Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management) which takes care of the distribution and preparation of this daily langar, shared with a daily that the quantity of people has taken a hike since their first time of food distribution after the authority announced the lockdown on March 24.
Harbhej Singh, who is in charge of the community Bangla Sahib Gurdwara kitchen, said,
“It’s our religion to serve the needy, no matter what the circumstances are. Nothing big about this, we are just doing our duty and want to feed more people everyday. We want to make sure nobody sleeps hungry.”
The whole of gurdwara’s premises is too divided workwise in order to make sure there is appropriate social distancing. Moreover, the kitchen is assured to be cleaned after each preparation.
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