FNCCI distributes relief to wage earners

Kathmandu, Apr 5

The Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) Sunday distributed 4,000 packets of relief materials to the daily wage earners.

It has supported the workers who lost their job due to the lockdown implemented to save people from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The daily wage earners have lost their job since the implementation of lockdown about two weeks ago and are facing problem to make ends meet.

The business body has distributed the relief materials collected under the 'Live and let live' campaign 2020.

Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Lekh Raj Bhatta and FNCCI President Bhawani Rana jointly gave away the relief materials to the workers. The packet included 10 kg rice and one kg pulse.

The items were distributed in Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur and Kavreplanchok districts.

District Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nepal Film Technician Association, Kathmandu Metropolitan City Ward Nos 1, 20 and 31, Madhyapur Thimi Municipality Ward Nos 3 and 6, Nawa Jiban Children Home have extended support to distribute the food items.

The FNCCI has already donated Rs 5 million to the Coronavirus Infection Prevention, Control and Treatment Fund set up by the government and pledged to provide additional support worth Rs 10 million in cash and kind.

Under the same programme, the business body has also provided 10,000 pieces of masks and 250 sets of PPEs to the Ministry of Health and Population through the MoICS.

The FNCCI has also urged its members to operate the industries with the application of all precaution against the COVID-19 pandemic and expressed solidarity with the government announced policies and programmes to combat the crisis.

Meanwhile, Swalamban Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha has deposited Rs 2.5 million in the Coronavirus Prevention, Control and Treatment Fund on Sunday.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 6 April 2020.