The move is aimed at preventing crowding at the local market and also to insulate the poor from the crushing economic impact of the coronavirus-induced lockdown. (Shutterstock)A group of villagers in Nadia’s Phulia has been selling to residents at subsidised rates vegetables, groceries, medicines and other essentials after procuring them from the wholesale market. The move is aimed at preventing crowding at the local market and also to insulate the poor from the crushing economic impact of the coronavirus-induced lockdown. As many as 380 families of Purba Natun Buincha School Para have been receiving the service. The villagers have to collect the items from a makeshift market in the village every day at 10am, by queuing up in keeping with social-distancing norms.

Source: The Telegraph April 16, 2020 21:22 UTC