Even as the country wages its battle against novel coronavirus amid a countrywide lockdown , floriculturists and plant greenhouse possessor and their workers near the Akshardham temple in Delhi are find out it unmanageable to feed their house in the absence of livelihood .

There are about 1,500 workers live in Yamuna Khadar in east Delhi who are involved in cultivation of flowers . Most hail from Uttar Pradesh ’s Pratapgarh but reside in Delhi for the last one and a half tenner . For most , raising and be given to flowering , ornamental plants raise in Yamuna floodplains in the national capital , and then picking bloom to sell in the market was part of the day-after-day routine before the lockdown was enforce .

Many mass too visit to pick efflorescence and other indoor and out-of-door plants for their garden or flowers engraft in pots . But for the last one month , there are no emptor and these workers and owner are wilted . Speaking to IANS , Amarpal , who run a glasshouse behind the Khel Gaon society near the new construct Delhi - Meerut superhighway , said : " We know in army hut on Yamuna plains and depend on plant nursery business for our sustenance . Ever since the lockdown was announce , we have lose all business . Now , I have no money to feed my family . "

Amarpal , who hail from Uttar Pradesh ' ’s Badayuin , suppose he has 70 - class - sure-enough bedridden mother besides other crime syndicate members to take care of . Pointing towards his mother , he said : " She has been bedfast for the last nine months . And now we have no mean value to take her to hospital whenever she kvetch of pain . " Asked if they have received free ration from the Delhi government activity in the last one month , he said : " No one from the government has come to give food for thought or ration to us . " He enunciate only few people from some NGOs come to deliver cooked meal .

Anara Devi , who herald from Pratapgarh , said : " After the lockdown was announced , we do n’t have any income as there are no vendee . " She also said that her family had not find any ration from the Delhi governance but was hooked on food provide by some NGOs on the principal road that link Delhi with Meerut . She pointed out that she had seven family members , including a seven - calendar month - old baby .

Anara Devi said their savings for the last one year were being used to buy ration during the lockdown . " Now , we are worried because the money is not go to last long , " she said . She regret that they had no means to return to their villages as inter - state bus and trains were stopped . She said that the government should either arrange to send them back to their villages or arrange food here .

The Delhi government has announced to provide solid food and ration to over one crore house in the national capital .

reference : Outlook India