New Delhi/Chandigarh, April 27: The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managing Committee (DSGMC) on Monday sent 25,000 food packets to the quake-hit Nepal to assist those affected there.

The food packets were transported on Indian Air Force IAF aircraft. additional food packets are probably to be sent to Nepal afterward Monday, DSGMC media advisor Parminder Pal Singh told.

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal had on Sunday directed the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) and DSGMC to start out air-lifting the food packets to Kathmandu daily.

Both organisations have conjointly been asked to form arrangements to start ‘langar’ (community meal) for the affected people in Kathmandu and different places.

Badal asked each organisations, that manage gurdwaras (Sikh shrines) in Punjab and Delhi severally, to pool resources to arrange a ‘langar’ for 10,000 people at Kathmandu until the time it’s needed.

DSGMC president Manjit Singh G.K. said the IAF was being requested to form arrangements to air-lift ten tonnes of stuff to Kathmandu for preparation of recent langar, whereas twenty volunteers and round the same variety of cooks would even be airlifted to Kathmandu to operationalise the langar.

“This will be started at a central place in Kathmandu in consultation with the Nepalese government,” he said

In Chandigarh, the Punjab government has came upon an impact space within the Punjab secretariat to assist people from the state who are stranded in Nepal.

Punjab Chief Secretary Sarvesh Kaushal said the Punjab government would tie up with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to dispatch relief material needed in Nepal.