NEW DELHI: Sex workers on the GB Road here were left in the lurch after the lockdown was announced last month as the area was out of bounds for the conventional helping hands. A group of RSS volunteers, however, took up their cause providing food packets to them since the lockdown was announced on March 24.Apparently most of the sex workers have turned penniless as none is visiting them in the wake of the lockdown restrictions. The RSS volunteers prepared list of 986 sex workers to whom they have been providing the ration packets and food since the lockdown was announced.The saffron fountain-head has been striving to ensure survival and safety of several such social segments in the hour of crisis including the helpless elderlies and also a large number of people from the north east stuck in various metros.Making their contributions to combat Covid-19 virus, the RSS has activated its volunteers and the frontal organisations to work at the ground level of which feeding the underprivileged is on the top of their priority.“Over 20 lakh RSS volunteers are working from 33000 different places in the country and Sangh has been organising meal for more than 17-lakh families across the country,” RSS national media chief Arun Kumar told TOI.RSS functionary said the Sangh also took up the cause of the people of the north east stuck in various cities for whom a special drive was launched to ensure that they don’t face any inconvenience. “Over 5000 people from north east contacted us and we also approached over 2000 people and helped them,” said Kumar adding that the second priority was to take care of the nomadic tribes (ghumantu), who are homeless and keep moving.RSS’s frontal organisation — Seva Bharti — has started food packing units across the country. In Delhi, RSS is providing food and essential ration to millions of such families every day. Thousands of volunteers of Seva Bharati are working to provide ration to the people in poor settlements of Delhi.Seva Bharti has prepared a ration kit for the poor and daily wage labourers in Okhla Industries area. Thousands of ration cartons are being prepared daily in this packing unit. These cartons of ration include 10 kg flour, 2 kg rice, 2 kg pulses, 1 kg sugar, 1 liter oil, tea leaf, garam masala, turmeric, coriander powder, noodles and dried milk packets.In Mumbai, a total 30 of community kitchens were set up area wise through which daily 100000+ food packets are being distributed, not just food but they have set up food packing centres at district level too.Even senior BJP leaders have also insisted that the party cards should ensure that none is left hungry and they should take responsibility of feeding the poor families in their neighbourhood as long as the lockdown continues.Party’s good governance cell has been feeding over 1700 people every day in the national capital. Virender Sachdeva, a member of the cell, says, “We start preparing food in morning. By 2 p.m, we start distributing food packets in shanties and slums.”