By Ramesh Giri, Bhaktapur, April 19: In the wake of the exodus of people from Kathmandu city to their home districts for losing jobs with the extended lockdown, various organizations in the district have set up free food stations to feed the hungry pedestrians and workers.    

Chairperson of district sports committee, Shreebhakta Kashichhawa, and other generous people provided foods free of cost to 150 pedestrians heading towards home from Kathmandu city. One among them was Ram Prasad Karki, who was going to Sindhuli via BP Highway. There were 50 others to receive the food free at Gatthaghar today.    

Also the proprietor of Nagarik Community Teaching Hospital, Kashichhawa informed that the pedestrians who were left for Saturday bus ride to their home districts were provided food free of cost today. Police had however sent some pedestrians in bus yesterday evening.    

"After holding discussion with lawmaker Mahesh Basnet, we arranged foods to those stranded on road," he said, adding that they were ready to provide food free of cost to pedestrians, street people, patients' parties from hospital as long as the lockdown continues.    

The initiation to this was implemented with the activism of lawmaker Mahesh Basnet.    

Similar generosity was shown at Jagati by the people led by Kiran Thapa, chairperson of Suryabinayak municipality-8 since yesterday. The pedestrians, workers, street people and poor ones are provided food freely.

Thapa informed that humanitarian organization, Shipadole Area Paropakar Samaj, and Humanitarian Values Nepal arranged the food to the needy ones who were going out of the Kathmandu Valley all on foot.