AMRITSAR: A group of Sikligar Sikhs of Umrati village in Badwani district of MP took to social media on Tuesday to air their concerns and grievances during lockdown and have urged the influential Sikh bodies and gurdwara management committees across the globe to help them with essentials since all of them were out of job due to lockdown.A young Sikligar Sikh leader Satnam Singh who is also guest teacher in government school in Umrati told TOI that none of the Sikh body including SGPC had extended helping hand towards them so far. “No body from SGPC or other Sikh body have approached in our village where as many as 800 Sikligar Sikhs live” adding no Sikh body had approached even in the nearby districts for helping Sikligar Sikhs.Sikligars Sikhs, a community of ironsmiths used to make weapons but in present day they make knives, daggers etc. SGPC had always been helping them and had even earmarked Rs 14 crore for helping the needy Sikhs and Sikligar Sikhs etc during its 2019-2020 budget passed in March 2019.Satnam said MP government had distributed five and ten kg rice and wheat respectively to every member of Sikligar Sikhs twice during the lockdown period. “But we don’t have refined oil, spices, cereals and other essentials and we are not in a position to buy since we have run out of our savings” he said.Expressing his concern over coronavirus outbreak, he said there was no coronavirus patient in their village for now but 40 kilometer away in Sandhawa as many as ten persons were tested positive for coronavirus that had also scared them. He said the aim behind going to social media was to attract attention towards them.SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal didn’t pick the phone despite several attempts. However Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee president Manjinder Singh Sirsa said DSGPC had been helping Sikligar Sikhs. “We are in touch with them and whenever anyone approached us we immediately responded to them” said he adding that he was not in position to comment on a particular place where Sikligar Sikhs were seeking help.