Galkot, March 29 : Baglung municipality here has started offering meal to the poor and daily wagers twice a day in view of the nationwide lockdown in the country due to COVID-19.    
The municipality in coordination with the Shaligram Museum at Baglung municipality-4 and Balajidham Muktinath Bed Bidyashram has begun providing meal to the daily wagers and impoverished people who are at the receiving end of the lockdown enforced since last Tuesday to contain the outbreak of COVID-19.    
Altogether 68 such persons who were working in Baglung district headquarters reached the premises of Dhaulagiri Multiple Campus today morning to have food.    
Additionally, 40 persons staying at Manav Sewa Ashram and other daily wagers working in the local brick kilns also availed the free food service, the municipality said.    
Precautions have been maintained while serving the food to the beneficiaries. The benevolent ones are urged to wash hands properly, serve meal by maintaining a certain distance so as to prevent the infection of the flu-like disease if any.    
Considering the difficulties in earning livelihood to the daily wagers in the wake of lockdown, the municipality took the humanitarian effort, observed mayor Janak Raj Poudel.    
The municipality has been collecting data of the daily wagers in all of its local units to provide relief package to them.