NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that food and shelter for migrant labourers, poor and destitute are taken care of by governments and NGOs setting up of 26,000 shelters and 17,000 food camps across the country during the lockdown period.Solicitor general Tushar Mehta submitted a status report to a bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde, and Justices S K Bail and Deepak Gupta and said while governments have set up 22,567 shelter homes, the NGOs have pitched in with 3,909 more, which together house house over 10.3 lakh persons. The 17,000 food camps feed over 84 lakh persons daily. In addition, over 15 lakh migrant labourers are given shelter and food by the employer and industries where they were employed, the Centre said.Appearing for right activists Harsh Mandher and others, advocate Prashant Bhushan doubted these figures and claimed that food at shelter homes was inedible and that social distancing norm is given a complete go bye. SG told the court that these activists are making wild guesses and allegations as none of them have visited any of food camps or shelter homes even once.The CJI-led bench told the activists that the court cannot supplant its wisdom with the governments' and there is little to deny that migrant labourers are getting food and shelter. "We are not experts and do not intent to interfere without knowing what it is all about. We do not want to supplant the wisdom of the government with ours. We cannot take better policy decision at this stage. We do not want to interfere in government decisions for the next 10/15 days," it said and adjourned hearing by a week. The lockdown period is scheduled till April 14.When Bhushan said migrant labourers need to be paid minimum wages to enable them to send money home, the SC asked as to why they need money now as the government says that anyone in need of food is being provided for. On the petitioners' allegation that the food at shelter homes were inedible, the bench said that this is not an issue the courts could monitor at this juncture. SG promised the court that grievances relating to food if any is being addressed as there is a dedicated helpline for this purpose and complaints are monitored daily.When Bhushan alleged that the government was not doing anything, the SC bench said, "how can you say so when you say that you have not gone through the status report? Please go through it and we will hear you on Monday (April 13)." SG said except vague and baseless allegations, the PILs are barefoot of fact. "The petitioners harbour a misconception that except them no one else is concerned about the country, being blissfully unaware of the gigantic exercise undertaken by the Centre and state governments," he said."When the country is facing such unprecedented crisis, filing of such petitions needs to be discouraged as these divert the officials from their primary task of fighting Covid-19 pandemic," he said. He said apart from the shelter and food for migrant labourers and food for poor and destitute, the government has decided to provide five kg of food grain and one kg of pulses to 80 crore individuals every month free of cost for next three months. He said financial assistance is being provided to 3.5 crore construction workers from the Welfare Fund for Building and other Construction Workers.